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
The Wendy Walk The Wendy Walk The Wendy Walk is a not for profit organization whose mission is to raise funds and awareness for liposarcoma, a rare form of soft tissue cancer that is currently untreatable. The foundation hosts annual walks in Miami, New York City and Los Angeles as its main fundraising event. Through these walks, the foundation has raised over 2 million dollars for liposarcoma research. Liposarcoma is an "orphan" cancer, therefore it depends solely on new research. Incredible progress has been made in finding the root cause of liposarcoma, largely as a result of funding provided by The Wendy Walk