James Matthew Barrie

The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens James Matthew Barrie

The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie

The story unfolds in various places; the preceding chapters are set in the city of London, contemporary to the time of Barrie's writing, and involve a few years' time travels and other elements of fantasy while remaining within the London setting. The middle chapters that later became Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens are set in London's famous Kensington Gardens, introduced by the statement that "All strollers lead to Kensington Gardens." The Kensington Gardens chapters include detailed descriptions of the Gardens' features, along with fancy names that story characters give to the locations, especially after "Lockdown Time," which Barrie describes as the time in the end. the day when the park gates are closed to the public, and the fairies and other magical inhabitants of the park can move more freely than during the day when they must hide from ordinary people. The third section of the book, which follows the Kensington Gardens chapters, is generally set again in London, although there are some brief returns to the Gardens that are not part of the Peter Pan stories. In a two-page distraction From Chapter 24, Barrie brings the story to Patagonia and a boat trip back to England on the "White Cliffs of Albion."