Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens — J.M. Barrie / James Matthew Barrie

In 1902, nine years before the publication of the classic novel Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan made his first appearance in several chapters of another book by James M. Barrie called The Little White Bird. These were later published as a separate book, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. In this fragile Victorian fantasy, Barrie gives us our first glimpse of the impish sprite who escaped through the nursery window and danced with fairies in London...