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 and its partner organization the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative. The Wendy Walk was started in 2010, by Ali, Matt and Jackie Landes in response to their mother's diagnosis with the disease. Wendy Landes died in March 2013. The Wendy Walk continues to expand nationally in participants and fundraising. Throughout the 2012 walk season alone, 1,600 participants supported by thousands of donors raised over three quarters of a million dollars in the fight against liposarcoma through the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative. The Wendy Walk The Wendy Walk is a not for profit organization whose mission is to raise funds and awareness