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A hugely popular playwright before the First World War, best known for his Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn\u2019t Grow Up<\/em> (performed 1904; published 1928), the Scottish author J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) continued to write during and after the conflict.<\/p>\n

Barrie was affected profoundly by the death in the First World War (in 1915) of George Llewelyn Davies, one of the five brothers to whom he became guardian after their parents\u2019 deaths in 1907 and 1910 (Birkin 1979, pp. 243-6), the wounding of another, Peter, the model for Peter Pan (Birkin 1979, p. 257), and other losses of families and friends around the time. These experiences form part of the backdrop for the play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals<\/em> (1917), first published in the collection Echoes of the War<\/em> (1918), and later as the title piece of a collection of four plays in the Uniform Edition of Barrie\u2019s work (1921; cited here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The title character is Mrs Dowey: the \u2018medals\u2019 are imagined letters from an imagined son whose name she has taken from the newspaper. This dissimulation, replete with pathos, is situated in the prose introduction as \u2018a secret sorrow, namely, the crime\u2019 (pp. 8-9); the narratorial prose voice which interjects among the dialogue throughout the play in place of what might usually be stage directions, later relents: \u2018The wicked woman: but let us also say \u201cPoor Sarah Ann Dowey\u201d\u2019 (p. 17).<\/p>\n

By fortune and circumstance, the \u2018son\u2019 Kenneth agrees to spend his five days\u2019 leave with her. He is described as:<\/p>\n

a great rough chunk of Scotland, howked out of her not so much neatly as liberally; and in his Black Watch uniform, all caked with mud, his kit and nearly all his worldly possessions on his back, he is an apparition scarcely less fearsome (but so much less ragged) than those ancestors of his who trotted with Prince Charlie to Derby. (p. 24)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Scots word \u2018howk\u2019 is usually associated with collecting crops, particularly potatoes in the autumn (some areas still today receive an elongated \u2018tattie howkin\u2019<\/a>\u2019 school holiday). The connection with the Jacobite \u2018Young Pretender\u2019 is surprising for 1917-18, a time at which we would expect British national unity to be uppermost. At Kenneth\u2019s curiosity for an explanation, she explains that she calls herself \u2018Missis to give me a standing\u2019, and mourns that \u2018It was everybody\u2019s war, mister, except mine\u2019 (p. 26).\u00a0 The pragmatic response to systemic misogyny and the non-combatant desire to participate, or at least share, is exculpatory, and the latter perhaps also speaks to Barrie\u2019s own feelings, as a man in his late 50s, in the face of the conflict.<\/p>\n

After their \u2018queer first meeting\u2019 (p. 34) the two reach a rapprochement, as Kenneth reveals that he does not have his own family. He is curious enough, and glad enough of her desire to look after him, that the bargain that she can, \u2018for [her] own personal glory [\u2026] go on pretending to the neighbours\u2019 seems worth its chance (p. 41).\u00a0 He finds her funny (peculiar and humorous), but does not make her a joke; they share their lack of family, in the wartime state of exception, and for Kenneth in the face of death, form that bond in a matter of days. At the end of his leave they speak to each other as mother and son, and he makes her his next of kin.<\/p>\n

The play culminates, inevitably, with her receiving his personal effects, including his \u2018bonnet, a thin packet of real letters, and the famous champagne cork\u2019, from the bottle they shared on his leave (p. 57).\u00a0 The end of the play feels odd: \u2018Her air of triumph becomes her.\u00a0 She lifts the pail and the mop, and slouches off gamely to the day\u2019s toil\u2019 (p. 58).\u00a0 The triumph is\u2026 that she has made this human connection?\u00a0 That she feels she has participated in the conflict?\u00a0 That, deus ex machina<\/em>, she has not been caught out in her lie?<\/p>\n

The play offers many things to a late wartime audience: soldiers returning home on leave, the forming of new emotional connections, the hope that scenarios which seem unlikely to resolve themselves can achieve a satisfactory resolution; the importance of women\u2019s role during the conflict.\u00a0 It also offers the chance to grieve, along with the redeemed title character, who has barely had time to get to know her \u2018new son\u2019.<\/p>\n

We came erroneously to add this play to the War Books Boom database.\u00a0 It was advertised in the Bookman<\/em> in December 1926<\/a>, but this seems not to be a new publication: the edition advertised is the Uniform Edition, which seems to have remained in print over the five years since its publication.\u00a0 This raises a further question which we might take into account: how, and whether it is possible, to account for works which are not newly published in this period, but are enduringly popular.<\/p>\n

This play continued to be popular across multiple forms, as with so many of the successes of the War Books Boom.\u00a0 There were two American pre-Code film adaptations (1930, 1933), an early BBC television adaptation first screened over the 1937 Christmas holidays<\/a>, with further radio performances<\/a> subsequently and through the war years, as well as a 1952 television revival.\u00a0 There were numerous other US adaptations for screen and radio in the post-Second World War years, as well as a one-act musical (1960).\u00a0 This attests to Barrie\u2019s enduring power, but also the continuing desire for people to process these sorts of emotions via creative works.<\/p>\n

Initial research by Ray Thomson<\/p>\n

Revised version by Andrew Frayn<\/p>\n

Works cited<\/strong><\/p>\n

J.M. Barrie, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals<\/em>, in The Old Lady Shows Her Medals <\/em>(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921), pp. 3-58<\/p>\n

Andrew Birkin, J.M. Barrie & The Lost Boys: The Love Story that Gave Birth to Peter Pan<\/em> (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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