Amy, seventeen and steeped in theatrical melodrama, decides that her mother, just home from India, is about to be compromised by a family friend. Determined to save her, she sets about rescuing a woman who needs no rescuing. Barrie’s stage directions read like a novelist’s asides, peeping into Amy’s padlocked diary.
Ellen Terry created the mother’s role in 1905, and the comedy shows the author of Peter Pan at his most whimsical. Download the free EPUB.