[lit-ideas] Re: From Cleanliness to Literature
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:23:24 -0500
**Isn't Wendy a derivative of Gwendoyn (Welsh)??
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
David Ritchie wrote:
> My father, who is visiting, confirms that Barrie invented the name "Wendy."
> What further evidence could a person want?
>
> He explains, having visited the site of Barrie's pre-success hovel, that
> Barrie composed in a wash house. Which is to say that the "Wendy house" I
> remembered from the postcard, and that children used (possibly still do) to
> imitate in their small playhouses in England (Americans won't know what I'm
> talking about--Wendy houses are perhaps the female equivalent of forts or
> tree houses), was a small hut in which, perhaps to escape the noise of
> family life, Barrie would be charged with the fire underneath the boiler and
> thus the process of doing laundry. While tending the fire, he was inspired
> to write of pan et peter.
>
> Irony: I was describing one of my paintings to students today. I said that
> I had gone from, early in my ambitions, hoping to "do" all of Scottish
> history in one painting, to considering as suitable subject my father, my
> brother, some laundry on a line and the Derbyshire hills. Except I called
> the laundry "washing," and they hadn't a clue what I was talking about!
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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