The Little Minister

J M Barrie was a Scottish novelist and dramatist best known for creating the character Peter Pan. Barrie was given a Baronet in 1913 for his literary accomplishments. Peter Pan first appeared in a serial called The Little White Bird in 1901. First published in Good Words Magazine in 1891, The Little Minister is the Romantic story of a Scottish Presbyterian minister who falls in love with an educated, radiant gypsy girl, who turns out to be a peeress who impersonates a gypsy and smoothes things over between rebellious weavers and the authorities in 1840 Scotland. This melodramatic tale evokes the richness of Scottish life and characters in a poor weaving town. The story is set in the fictional town of Thrums which was modeled after Barrie's hometown of Kirriemuir.