Wendy 1904 play "Peter Pan" and its 1911 novelization "Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie. Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s but subsequently declined. The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. With the common childhood difficulty pronouncing "R"s, Margaret reportedly used to call him "my fwiendy-wendy". The name Wendy in Dutch is either of Anglo-Saxon origin or an abbreviation of names such as Wendela (an old-fashioned name which probably means related to the Vandals). Chinese women with the same or similar-sounding characters as their given names often anglicise their
Wendy McGrath Wendy McGrath Wendy McGrath is a poet and novelist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Wendy McGrath released the EP "BOX" (spring 2017) with the group Quarto & Sound—made up of Edmonton musicians Sascha Liebrand, Yana Loo, and writer McGrath. "BOX" is an adaptation of McGrath's eponymous "mirror poem"—a genre-blurring collaboration of poetry, jazz, spoken word, instrumental experimental music, and voice. McGrath's most recent publication is the poetry collection "A Revision of Forward" (NeWest Press 2015). The book is the culmination of a decade-long poetry/print collaboration with printmaker Walter Jule (who also contributed cover art for McGrath's first book "common place ecstasies"