![]() ![]() Barrie manipulated his way into the Davies family, alienated Sylvia, the mother of the famous/notorious boys, from her husband, Arthur, and then, after both parents died, appropriated the boys despite their mother's actual intentions.īeyond that, he even has some interesting points to make, that seem to be reality-based, about Barrie's methods of, more or less, mind control, and how that related to the Du Maurier family (including George, the author of Trilby and thus creator of Svengali Sylvia, his daughter Gerald, his son, an actor whose life was inextricably linked with Barrie's and of course Daphne, the author of Rebecca). I've never been more captivated by a book I respected less and less as I read each page.ĭudgeon starts with a valid premise, and one that he is not of course the first to write about: that J. ![]()
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