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The growing pains of Pan.(Book Review)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20050617
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON

Joy of youth: J.M. Barrie plays with his adopted son Michael, who is dressed as Peter Pan

THE AUTHORS of the great children's classics all lived at a tangent to normal society. Edward Lear was homosexual, depressive and subject to epileptic fits.

Charles Kingsley, apart from regularly flagellating his wife, was fairly normal, but The Water Babies is more an adult satire than a children's book.

Lewis Carroll was decidedly eccentric.

Kenneth Grahame of The Wind In The Willows fame was effectively orphaned at a very young age. And ...

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