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 J. Fox Wendy J. Fox Wendy J. Fox (born 1979) is an American author born in Washington. She is most known for winning Press 53’s inaugural short-fiction competition with her collection “The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories.” Fox has published short stories in the "ZYZZYVA", "Tampa Review", "The Pinch", and "Washington Square Review", among others. In 2015, Fox was a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards. She was also included in 2006’s Tales from the Expat Harem, an anthology of female writers based on the experiences of living in Turkey. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado. Fox was born and