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On this day, May 9th 1860, Scottish author J.M. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus.
J.M. Barrie is most famous for creating Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up, who could fly and lived in Never Never Land, whilst living in London. Barrie devised the character on trips to Kensington Gardens, where he regaled the children of a family he befriended with Peter Pan's exploits. You can see the statue Barrie commissioned of Peter Pan, in Kensington Gardens near the west bank of the Long Water at the spot where he landed his bird's nest boat in Barrie's book 'The Little White Bird'. The statue hs been a favourite in Kensington Gardens since 1912. In his will Barrie gave the copyright to his Peter Pan books, and character, to Great Ormond Street Hospital, the famous children's hospital in London. A right that in 1988 was set into law by a House of Lords amendment to the UK Copyright Act, that means Great Ormond Street Hospital will always have this copyright. Find out more about this special connection via: https://www.gosh.org/about-us/peter-pan/history Find out more about his birthplace in Scotland at: https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/j-m-barries-birthplace
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On this day, April 28th 1926, Harper Lee tha author of the American Modern Classic 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was born.
Harper Lee saw her book as a phenomenom, published in 1960 it tackled issues of innocence in the face of prejudice, particularly racial prejudice of the United States in the era of segregation. Doing so from the viewpoint of a young white girl, Scout, her older brother Jem and friend Dill, as their father Atticus defends a wrongly accused black man Tom Robinson. Whilst the children also speculate as to their reclusive neighbour, Boo Radley. The book has never been out of print, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, and earning Harper Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. The book has become a mainstay in anti-racist teaching in schools, not just in the USA but across the English speaking world. |
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