He also told the boys stories of pirates and treasure. He encountered George, Jack, and the family nurse Mary during his walks at the park, entertaining the lads by 'wiggling his ears and perform magic tricks with his eyebrows'. Sylvia's sons George (the eldest) and Jack were the first Davies boys that Barrie met. Like in the movie, Barrie (Johnny Depp) first met the children of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) at his favorite park, Kensington Gardens. Margaret never recovered from the loss of her favorite son, and James never stopped trying to become the child that was his brother David, even after his mother's death in 1895 and on into his adult life. Once he even dressed in David's old clothes.

He adopted his deceased brother's mannerisms in an attempt to win his mother's affection.

When David passed away Margaret ignored her other children, refusing their pleas for her affection. At the time of his death, David had grown to be the perfect child in his mother Margaret's eyes. was six-years-old his older brotherĭavid died in a skating accident. The youngest Davies boy Nico, who died in 1980, arrived at the balanced conclusion that the author of 'Peter Pan' was 'a lover of childhood, but was not in any sexual sense the pedophile that some claim him to have been.' J.M.'s obsession with childhood is speculated to have been the result of his own emotionally traumatic life as a boy. Have discovered that there is little, if any proof to support her statement. I questioned whether to believe her or not, and after doing my own research I She was exuberant in her claims and seemed to enjoy giving us the 'real' story. After viewing the movie Finding Neverland in 2004 with a few friends, one of them, who was an English Major in college at the time, left the theater telling us that the movie wasn't true because James Matthew Barrie was really a disgusting pedophile.

Story by james matthew barrie