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 World That Never Was "full of bathos as well as bombs, of a naivety that fomented revolution but never controlled what happened next" and also noted its relevance to 21st-century terrorism. Wendy Smith in the "Los Angeles Times" praised "Butterworth's deeply knowledgeable, exceedingly well-written text" for its awareness of anarchism's shortcomings, and "The Washington Post"'s John Smolens described "The World That Never Was" as a "thorough, compelling examination" capable of portraying "anarchism as the product of an inexorable human impulse" and questioning whether anarchist ideas may persist in the present. Mark Mazower of "Bookforum" commended the book for showing the significance of the period