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 Webb Wendy Webb Wendy K. Webb is an American fiction author. Her books have received several awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011 and 2017. Webb was born and raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. When Webb was in grade school, the school librarian encouraged her to read "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. After reading that book, she knew from that point on that she was destined to be an author. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a major in political science and minors in French and history.