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Sylvia Jocelyn Busson Llewelyn Davies (née du Maurier; 25 November 1866 – 27 August 1910) was the mother of the boys who were the inspiration for the stories of Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie. She was the daughter of cartoonist and writer George du Maurier and his wife Emma Wightwick, the elder sister to actor Gerald du Maurier, the aunt of ...
- Sylvia Jocelyn Busson du Maurier, 25 November 1866
- George du Maurier (father), Emma Wightwick (mother)
- 27 August 1910 (aged 43), Devon, England
Apr 8, 2017 · So the five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the daughter of the writer and cartoonist George du Maurier and sister of actor Gerald du Maurier gave Barrie the idea for Peter Pan’s adventures. Illustration of Peter Pan playing the pipes, with Neverland in the background, by F. D. Bedford, from the novel Peter and Wendy published in 1911.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the boys' mother Jack Llewelyn Davies age 7 in The Boy Castaways. The boys were born to Arthur Llewelyn Davies, a barrister, and his wife Sylvia (née du Maurier), the daughter of French-born cartoonist and writer George du Maurier.
Two days after the marriage was dissolved, in 1909, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies was herself diagnosed with cancer. Less than a year later she left her sons— now ranging in age from 6 to...
Oct 29, 2012 · Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, who in an odd gesture to the gothic happened to be Daphne du Maurier’s aunt, did die, just as in the movie, of lung cancer. But she died in 1910, five years after the first staging of Peter Pan, not just as it came out. Already the play had integrated itself into upper-middle-class British society as a Christmas tradition.
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Jan 8, 2019 · Sylvia Llewelyn Davies was the mother of the five boys who inspired J.M. Barrie to create the character of Peter Pan. She died of cancer in 1907, leaving Barrie to become their guardian and friend.
Character Analysis. (Avoiding Spoilers) Grew Up… as a beloved daughter of the du Maurier family, a high-status London family in the late 1800s. But Sylvia became a disappointment to her mother and a topic of conversation at high society parties when she married a man considered to be beneath her.
