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The House Governor of the Great Ormond Street Hospital is concerned to stress that Peter Pan is not dead. He has good reason. Since 1929, when Barrie left the rights on Peter Pan to the Hospital for Sick Children, it has accounted for anything up to a third of the hospital’s annual income. The exact sum remains undisclosed. Barrie himself stipulated that it should be kept secret.1
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Notes
F. J. H. Darton, ‘The Youth of a Children’s Magazine’, Cornhill May 1932, reprinted as Appendix 4 to Darton, Children’s Books in England 1982 edition, edited by Brian Alderson (pp. 339–48).
See also G. R. Sims, Without the Limelight (Sims, 1900, Chapter 1 ‘The Christmas Fairy’, pp. 1–18); Sims starts his account of theatrical life with a description of the dress rehearsal of Dick Whittington at the Theatre Royal, Northerton.
Brian Alderson, ‘Some Additional Notes on Victorian and Edwardian Times’, Appendix 1 to Darton, Children’s Books in England 1982 edition, edited by Brian Alderson (pp. 316–31).
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Rose, J. (1984). Peter Pan and Commercialisation of the Child. In: The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’s Fiction. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17385-3_5
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