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Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.
This season's book talks, festivals and exhibitions are in What's On: Books & writers
Barrie's Peter Pan, put up in Kensington Gardens overnight in 1912 so that it would seem to have appeared by magic.
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J. M. Barrie commissioned George Frampton's bronze himself and had it installed secretly on the night of 30 April 1912, announcing it in The Times the next morning as if the fairies had done it. It stands on the spot where Peter lands in The Little White Bird, the 1902 novel in which he first appeared as a baby who flew out of his nursery window to the Gardens. Rabbits, squirrels, mice and fairies climb the tree-stump pedestal, worn bright by children's hands; Frampton modelled the boy on his own patron's son rather than on the Llewelyn Davies boys, which Barrie regretted. Casts stand from Liverpool to Brussels.
Kensington Gardens, gates 06:00 to dusk
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