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     • P.L. Travers was an Australian English writer known for her Mary Poppins books, about a magical nanny. The books insightfully explored the fraught relationship between children and adults through a combination of mythological allusion and biting social critique.
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   Who was Pamela Travers?

   • Performing under the name Pamela Travers, she toured as a repertory player. (Travers was her father’s first name.) In 1922 her poetry began appearing in the erotic magazine The Triad, which later published her column “A Woman Hits Back.”

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   Why did Lyndon Travers leave Australia?

   • Adopting the stage name Pamela (popular at the time) Lyndon Travers, she gained a modest reputation as a dancer and Shakespearean actress. Her wealthy relatives, however, did not approve; feeling that Australians lacked humor and lyricism, she left for London, England, to seek the literary life.

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   Who was Camillus Travers?

   • At the age of 40, two years after moving out on her own, Travers adopted a baby boy from Ireland whom she named Camillus Travers. He was the grandchild of Joseph Hone, the first biographer of George Moore and W. B. Yeats, who was raising his seven grandchildren with his wife.

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   Who was Travers Goff?

   • Her father, Travers Goff, was an unsuccessful bank manager and heavy drinker who died when she was 7. Called Lyndon as a child, Travers moved with her mother and sisters to New South Wales after her father's death, where they were supported by a great aunt (the inspiration for her book Aunt Sass).

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   Did Travers and Lawson have a relationship?

   • Lawson hints at the possibility that these were more than friendships due to the intensity of feelings conveyed in what few letters and correspondence remain. However, there is no smoking gun to confirm or deny Lawson’s speculations.Unfortunately, Travers, although an avid correspondent, was very circumspect regarding her private life.

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   Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (/ ˈ t r æ v ər z / TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. [1] She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, [2] which feature the eponymous magical nanny.

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   Apr 3, 2014 · Mysterious and prickly, author P.L. Travers created the beloved governess Mary Poppins, further popularized by the Disney film and stage musical of the same name.

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   P.L. Travers was an Australian English writer known for her Mary Poppins books, about a magical nanny. The books insightfully explored the fraught relationship between children and adults through a combination of mythological allusion and biting social critique.

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   Apr 19, 2018 · P.L. Travers (August 9, 1899 – April 23, 1996), full name Pamela Lyndon Travers, was an Australian-born author best remembered as the author of the Mary Poppins series of books. She had a vivid imagination from childhood on, and was inspired by her love of reading, favoring fairy tales and myths.

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   Sep 1, 1999 · But the story of Mary Poppins's creator, as this first biography reveals, is just as unexpected and remarkable. The fabulous English nanny was conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who in 1924 came to London from Sydney as a journalist.

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   Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny.

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   Pamela Lyndon Travers is the author of Mary Poppins Comes Back (4.01 avg rating, 14625 ratings, 699 reviews, published 1935), Mary Poppins in the Park, 1...