"Wendy house A Wendy house is a United Kingdom term for a small playhouse for children, large enough for one or more children to enter. Size and solidity can vary from a plastic kit to something resembling a real house in a child's size. Usually there is one room, a doorway with a window on either side, and little or no furniture other than that which the children improvise. The original was built for Wendy Darling in J. M. Barrie's play, ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"". Wendy was shot by the Lost Boy Tootles after arriving"
"Sidney for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, ""The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia""; Jessica, created by William Shakespeare in his play ""The Merchant of Venice""; Vanessa, created by Jonathan Swift; Fiona, a character from James Macpherson's spurious cycle of Ossian poems; Wendy, an obscure name popularised by J. M. Barrie in his play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up""; and Madison, a character from the movie ""Splash"". Lara and Larissa were rare in America before the appearance of ""Doctor Zhivago,"" and have become fairly common since. Songs can influence the naming of children. Jude jumped"
"Wendy Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a name for both women and men in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a diminutive for the Welsh ""Gwendolyn"". It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century. However, its existence in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the"
"Margaret Henley Margaret Emma Henley (4 September 1888 – 11 February 1894) was the daughter of William Ernest Henley and his wife Anna Henley (née Boyle). Margaret's friendship with J. M. Barrie, whom she called ""fwendy"" (i.e., ""friendy""), was the inspiration for the character Wendy Darling in Barrie's play ""Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" (1904) and its novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911). She may also have served as the inspiration for Margaret Dearth, the protagonist's ""dream-child"" in Barrie's 1917 play ""Dear Brutus"", and for Margaret, Wendy Darling's granddaughter, in ""Peter Pan"". Margaret died at the age"
"of five of cerebral meningitis. She was buried at the country estate of her father's friend, Henry Cust, in Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire. She was an only child. Margaret Henley Margaret Emma Henley (4 September 1888 – 11 February 1894) was the daughter of William Ernest Henley and his wife Anna Henley (née Boyle). Margaret's friendship with J. M. Barrie, whom she called ""fwendy"" (i.e., ""friendy""), was the inspiration for the character Wendy Darling in Barrie's play ""Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" (1904) and its novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911). She may also have served as the"
"boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, ""Peter Pan"" overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from"
"English-speaking world before J. M. Barrie's work and its subsequent popularity has led some to credit him with ""inventing"" it. Although the name ""Wendy"" was used to a limited extent as the familiar-form of the Welsh name Gwendolyn, it is thought that Barrie took the name from a phrase used by Margaret Henley, a five-year-old girl whom Barrie befriended in the 1890s, daughter of his friend William Henley. She called Barrie her ""friendy-wendy"", which she pronounced as ""fwendy-wendy"". She died at the age of five and was buried, along with her family, in Cockayne Hatley. In Great Britain, South Africa,"
"Hilda Trevelyan Hilda Trevelyan (4 February 1880 – 10 November 1959) was an English actress. Early in her career she became known for her performance in plays by J. M. Barrie, and is probably best remembered for creating the role of Wendy in ""Peter Pan"". Another early success was as Oliver Twist in a dramatisation of Charles Dickens's novel staged by Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Later in her career she performed in plays by Arnold Bennett, Ian Hay and others, in London and on tour. She retired after her last London play in 1939. Trevelyan was born Hilda Marie Antoinette Anna"
"top 100 most commonly used names for baby girls in England and Wales in 1934. The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"", where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. Jessica is the seventh most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2015. First appearing in 13th century England, Olivia was popularised by Shakespeare's character in the ""Twelfth Night"" (1602). Vanessa was created by Jonathan Swift in his poem ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713). While it first appeared in late 16th century England, Pamela was popularised after Samuel Richardson"
"White Bird"", and was incorporated into his later works about the character. Barrie wrote, ""When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies."" Fairies are seen in Neverland, in ""Peter and Wendy"", the novel version of J. M. Barrie's famous Peter Pan stories, published in 1911, and its character Tinker Bell has become a pop culture icon. When Peter Pan is guarding Wendy from pirates, the story says, ""After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb"
"Wanda Wanda is a female given name of Polish origin. It probably derives from the tribal name of the Wends. The name has long been popular in Poland where the legend of Princess Wanda has been circulating since at least the 12th century. In 1947 Wanda was cited as the second most popular name, after Mary, for Polish girls, and the most popular from Polish secular history. The name was made familiar in the English-speaking world by the 1883 novel ""Wanda"", written by Ouida, the story line of which is based on the last years of the Hechingen branch of"
"""Kidnapped"", both by Robert Louis Stevenson, were extremely popular in the 1880s. Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" was first published in 1894, and J. M. Barrie told the story of Peter Pan in the novel ""Peter and Wendy"" in 1911. Johanna Spyri's two-part novel ""Heidi"" was published in Switzerland in 1880 and 1881. In the US, children's publishing entered a period of growth after the American Civil War in 1865. Boys' book writer Oliver Optic published over 100 books. In 1868, the ""epoch-making book"" ""Little Women"", the fictionalized autobiography of Louisa May Alcott, was published. This ""coming of age"" story"
"title, ""Wendy the Good Little Witch"", in 1960. Other ancillary titles featuring the pleasant young witch include ""Wendy Witch World"" (October 1961 to September 1974), and ""Casper and Wendy"" (September 1972 to November 1973). Another ""Wendy the Good Little Witch"" comic ran from April 1991 to August 1994, and a three-issue ""Wendy the Good Little Witch and New Kids on the Block"" saw print in 1991. In addition to Casper, the Wendy comics frequently feature Wendy's ""aunties"", Thelma, Velma and Zelma, with whom she shares a cottage in a haunted forest. The story ""Remember When"" recounts how Wendy was abandoned"
"Henley, who had a wooden leg, was Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver. Henley was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, the author of ""Peter Pan"". Henley used to address Barrie as ""friend"", which Henley's only daughter, Margaret (1888–1894), who is also buried there along with her parents, mispronounced as ""fwend"" and changed in a childish way to ""fwendy-wendy"". The latter part of this familiar name gave the name of ""Wendy Darling"" which later became the Wendy of ""Peter Pan"". Henley is now chiefly remembered as the author of the poem ""Invictus"". Cockayne Hatley Cockayne Hatley is"
"names as ""Wendi"" or ""Wendy"" (e.g. Wendi Deng, Wendy Kweh). In Germany, after 1986, the name Wendy became popular because it is the name of a (targeted specifically at young girls) about horses and horse riding. Wendy Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a name for both women and men in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a diminutive for"
"in a revival of Michael Barringer's comedy-thriller ""Inquest"" in 1939 Trevelyan retired. She and her husband, who outlived her, enjoyed twenty years of retirement at their country house near Henley-on-Thames. There were no children of the marriage. She died at Henley-on-Thames, at the age of 82. Hilda Trevelyan Hilda Trevelyan (4 February 1880 – 10 November 1959) was an English actress. Early in her career she became known for her performance in plays by J. M. Barrie, and is probably best remembered for creating the role of Wendy in ""Peter Pan"". Another early success was as Oliver Twist in a"
"of Peter Pan, wresting a thimble from Peter's finger. The figure has a nine-and-a-half-inch wingspan and is seven inches tall, and was unveiled on 29 September 2005 by Sophie, Countess of Wessex. When translated into other languages, Tinker Bell's name is sometimes rendered more or less phonetically, but is often replaced by a name that evokes her character or one that refers to a bell or represents its sound. Tinker Bell Tinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play ""Peter Pan"" and its 1911 novelization ""Peter and Wendy"". She has appeared in multiple film and television"
"never articulated. In the 2003 film, the feeling is mutual and Wendy shows her love when she gives Peter a hidden kiss in order to save him from Captain Hook. They also have a special moment in the cartoon sequel to the 1953 film, ""Return to Neverland"", when Peter and a grown up Wendy are reunited for the first time in years and they say goodbye for the final time. In ""Hook"", an older Wendy hints she still has feelings for Peter (who has grown up and married her granddaughter, Moira). The first name ""Wendy"" was very uncommon in the"
"Wendy the Good Little Witch Wendy the Good Little Witch is a fictional comic book character from Harvey Comics. Like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Wendy is an opposite-type character, a girl witch who does good deeds. Wendy was introduced as a back-up feature as well as a companion for Casper in ""Casper the Friendly Ghost"" #20, May 1954. Casper met and befriended her after stopping a major battle between the witches & the ghosts. Soon, she was trialed in Harvey Hits, starting with #7. After a total of six appearances, she received her own"
"pages. Her 1886 book on Joan of Arc was described in a review in ""The Spectator"" as ""eminently readable"". However, the reviewer notes that she ""does not belong to the sceptical school of historians. Believing Jeanne to have been a divinely inspired heroine, she casts no doubt on the reality of her voices and visions."" Florence Caddy Florence Caddy (1837–1923) was an English non-fiction writer from Middlesex. She wrote the first book on household management to become well known. She was born in Middlesex (now part of London) in 1837, as Florence Tompson. She married John Turner Caddy in 1857"
"Wendy Meddour Wendy Meddour is a writer, illustrator and academic. Her debut children's novel ""A Hen in the Wardrobe"" was published by Frances Lincoln Publishers in 2012. The book was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award (for Outstanding First Novel) and was named one of the 'Best 50 Culturally Diverse Books since the 1950s' by ""The Guardian"". Meddour then published the bestselling ""Wendy Quill"" series with Oxford University Press, which has since been licensed in over ten countries. The series is based on her own childhood and was illustrated by her then twelve-year-old daughter, Mina May, making her one of"
"Tinker Bell Tinker Bell is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play ""Peter Pan"" and its 1911 novelization ""Peter and Wendy"". She has appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the Peter Pan stories, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture ""Peter Pan"". She also appears in the official sequel ""Peter Pan in Scarlet"" by Geraldine McCaughrean commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital as well as the ""Peter and the Starcatchers"" book series by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry. At first only a supporting character described by her creator as ""a common fairy"", her animated incarnation"
"Ackerman had one sibling, a younger brother, Alden Lorraine Ackerman, who was killed at the Battle of the Bulge. Ackerman was married to a German-born teacher and translator, Mathilda Wahrman (1912–1990), whom he met in the early 1950s while she was working in a book store he happened to visit. He eventually dubbed her ""Wendayne"" or, less formally, ""Wendy"", by which name she became most generally known within SF and film fandoms, after the character in ""Peter Pan"", his favorite fantasy. Although they went through a period of separation during the late 1950s and early 1960s, they remained officially married"
"Melendy Quartet, a series of four children's novels published between 1941 and 1951: ""The Saturdays"", ""The Four-Story Mistake"", ""Then There Were Five"", and ""Spiderweb for Two."" This series tells the adventures of four siblings who live in New York City and later in upstate New York with their father, a writer, and a housekeeper named Cuffy. ""Tatsinda"", a traditional fairy tale, was named an Honor Book at the 1963 ""New York Herald Tribune""'s Children's Spring Book Festival. Enright's final children's book, ""Zee"", the story of a naughty fairy, appeared in 1966. Enright's short stories for adult readers were published in"
"Rachel Hurd-Wood Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood (born 17 August 1990) is an English actress and model, best known for her film roles as Wendy Darling in ""Peter Pan"" (2003), Corrie McKenzie in ""Tomorrow, When the War Began"" (2010) and Sibyl Vane in ""Dorian Gray"" (2009), and her television role as Rachel Maddox in ""Clique"" (2017–present). Hurd-Wood was born in the Streatham district of South London, England, the daughter of Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She lived in London till the age of eight, when she and her family moved to a Victorian cottage at the edge of a leafy forest in Godalming,"
"Wendy Isdell Wendy Diane Isdell (born March 30, 1975) is an American author and artist. She is best known for her young adult works, which incorporate science and math into fiction. Her most popular novel, ""A Gebra Named Al,"" was first published in 1993. Isdell dedicated much of her early life to writing. Her first notable publishing credit came at age nine, through articles in the Haydon Elementary School newsletter (the first ever by a student). Seven years later, she signed a contract for her first novel, ""A Gebra Named Al,"" with Free Spirit Publishing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The sequel"
"and control her classmates. She is best friends with Caroline for most of the book but near the end of the book becomes best friends with Linda. At the very end she ends up becoming best friends with Laurie. She likes salami a lot, so she always trades lunches with Caroline. In addition, Wendy is manipulative and an excellent liar. She nicknames Linda ""Blubber"", because Linda presented a report on the whale and she is large-bodied. She lives in Hidden Valley with Caroline, Robby, and Linda. She has never been in the same class as Jill, Donna, Bruce, or Robby"
"and his wife, Mary. Wendy shares a nursery room with her two brothers, Michael and John. However, in the Disney version, her father decides that ""it's high time she had a room of her own"" and kicks her out of the nursery for ""stuffing the boys' heads with a lot of silly stories"", but changes his mind at the end of the film after he returns home with his wife after the party. Wendy is the most developed character in the story of Peter Pan, and is often considered the central protagonist. She is proud of her own childhood and"
"Wendy Thomas Melinda Lou ""Wendy"" Thomas-Morse (born September 14, 1961) is the daughter and fourth child of American businessman Dave Thomas, the founder of the fast food brand Wendy's. Morse is best known for being the namesake and mascot of the brand. She uses the name Wendy Thomas in her role as a spokesperson for Wendy's. Thomas was born in Columbus, Ohio, the fourth child of Dave Thomas. As a child Morse was unable to pronounce her L's and R's, struggling with her own name Melinda, and so became known by her nickname ""Wendy"" (with the pen-pin merger). Then 8-year"
"She went on to obtain a Doctorate of Divinity and Ph.D. in Religion. Isdell currently lives in Virginia, and is openly gay. For health reasons, she rarely ventures out. Wendy Isdell Wendy Diane Isdell (born March 30, 1975) is an American author and artist. She is best known for her young adult works, which incorporate science and math into fiction. Her most popular novel, ""A Gebra Named Al,"" was first published in 1993. Isdell dedicated much of her early life to writing. Her first notable publishing credit came at age nine, through articles in the Haydon Elementary School newsletter (the"
"totalisator and co-founder of the CSIRO. A great-aunt, Kate O'Connor, was a painter who lived in Paris most of her life. Her father, George Yelverton Julius, known as ""Gentleman George"", was thrown out by her mother for infidelity when Wendy was six and she and her sister have little or no memory of him. When Wendy was about 12, she was devastated to read in the newspapers that her father had been sent to prison for eight years for burglary. Her mother later remarried and had two more children. Wendy attended Lindfield Public School and Hornsby Girls' High School. She"
"the pseudonym Emma Darcy. Widowed, Wendy now lives in New South Wales, Australia with 5 grandchildren and 3 adult sons. As Emma Darcy, they sold her first novels in 1983. Darcy sold 60 million books from 1983 to 2001, and averaged six new books per year. In 2002, Darcy's first crime novel ""Who Killed Angelique?"" won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, ""Who Killed Bianca"", was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. In 1993 Frank and Wendy Brennan created the ""Emma Darcy Award Contest"" to encourage authors to finish"
"Wendy's about a year later. After serving as a regional director for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Thomas became part of the investor group which founded Arthur Treacher's. His involvement with the new restaurant lasted less than a year before he went on to found Wendy's. Thomas opened his first Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio, November 15, 1969. (This original restaurant remained operational until March 2, 2007, when it was closed due to lagging sales.) Thomas named the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, whose nickname was ""Wendy"", stemming from the child's inability to say her own name at a young age."