My Lady Nicotine by J.M. Barrie

The story revolves around a young woman who has been addicted to smoking since her youth and is now struggling with the consequences of her habit. She is portrayed as a complex character, both pitiful and repellent, whose addiction has consumed her life. The narrative explores themes of obsession, morality, and the destructive power of nicotine.

By J.M. Barrie · First published 1899 · Genre: Humor, Satire, Memoir · 33 chapters

Contents

• Matrimony and Smoking Compared
• My First Cigar
• The Arcadia Mixture
• My Pipes
• My Tobacco-Pouch
• My Smoking-Table
• Gilray
• Marriot
• Jimmy
• Scrymgeour
• His Wife's Cigars
• Gilray's Flower-Pot
• The Grandest Scene in History
• My Brother Henry
• House-Boat "Arcadia."
• The Arcadia Mixture again
• The Romance of a Pipe-Cleaner
• What Could he do?
• Primus
• Primus to his Uncle
• English-Grown Tobacco
• How Heroes Smoke
• The Ghost of Christmas Eve
• Not the Arcadia
• A Face that Haunted Marriot
• Arcadians at Bay
• Jimmy's Dream
• Gilray's Dream
• Pettigrew's Dream
• The Murder in the Inn
• The Perils of not Smoking
• My Last Pipe
• When my Wife is Asleep and all the House is Still

More by J.M. Barrie

• Margaret Ogilvy (1888)
• Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
• David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey (1917)
• The Little Nursery Governess (1871)
• Her Marriage, her Clothes, her Appetite, and an Inventory of Her (1908)
• A Night-Piece (1895)
• The Fight for Timothy (1912)
• A Shock (1918)
• All works by J.M. Barrie