P. L. Travers
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Pamela Lyndon Travers (9 August, 1899 - 23 April, 1996) was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, was the author of Mary Poppins and a student of G. I. Gurdjieff.
Both a published poet and a novelist, she knew William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot. She preferred to be called P. L. Travers (the two first initials were used to disguise a woman's name, a practice common to writers from J. K. Rowling to D.C. Fontana).
Goff was born to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes (neé Morehead), a couple that had married exactly nine months before.
Her father died when she was seven and Lawson (1999) notes that "epileptic seizure delirium" was given as the cause of death. However, Travers herself "always believed the underlying cause was sustained, heavy drinking".
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Books by P. L. Travers
Mary Poppins books
- Mary Poppins (1934)
- Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)
- Mary Poppins in the Park (1935)
- Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
- Gingerbread Shop (1952)
- Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party (1952)
- The Magic Compass (1953)
- Mary Poppins From A-Z (1962)
- Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975)
- Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
- Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988)
Novels
- I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941)
- Fox at the Manger (1962)
- Friend Monkey (1971)
- Two Pairs of Shoes (1980)
Collections
- Stories from Mary Poppin (1952)
- Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1999)
- Mary Poppins Omnibooks (1999)
Non-fiction
- About the Sleeping Beauty (1975)
- What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story (1989)
Books on P. L. Travers
A Lively Oracle: a Centennial Celebration of P. L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, editors. (New York: Larson Publications, 1999).
External links
- Lawson, V., 1999, Out of the sky she came: The life of P.L. Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, published in association with Belladonna Books. ISBN 0733610722
- Lawson,V., 2005, "Mary Poppins She Wrote, published by Aurum Press. ISBN 1845131266
- Gurdjieff by P.L. Travers, from Man, Myth and Magic: Encyclopedia of the Supernatural 12 vol., (London: Purnell, 1970-1971) reprinted on the International Gurdjieff Review web site.
- Finding aid to Papers of P. L. Travers in State Library of New South Wales (pdf file).
- Becoming Mary Poppins: P. L. Travers, Walt Disney, and the making of a myth. (Caitlin Flanagan, The New Yorker, 12 December 2005)
- Secret Life of a Letter to the Editor, (Valerie Lawson, Columbia Journalism Review, February, 2006)de:P. L. Travers
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