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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