![]() This novel inspired the highly successful Disney film musical. Trivia: Peter Llewellyn Davies would grow up to be a publisher and was the man who published Australian author P. Pan is the mischievous Greek fawn god of song pipes and woodlands. ![]() Peter was one of the five Llewelyn Davies brothers. The name Peter Pan? It came from two sources. “ostensibly a holiday entertainment for children but really a play for grown-up people.” George Bernard Shaw said that Peter Pan was He called her “my fwendy-wendy.” The girl’s name goes back to the 19th century as a form of Gwendolyn. ![]() Barrie “popularized” the girl’s name Wendy, taking it from a five-year-old girl he knew named Barrie Margaret Henle. Barrie wrote “ Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up,” a play about an ageless little boy and a London girl named Wendy. The Llewelyn Davies boys were the inspiration for the boy who has adventures in nearby Kensington Gardens in London and the magical Neverland. ![]()
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