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Upon emigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books. Travers travelled to New York City during World War II while working for the British Ministry of Information.
Dec 19, 2013 · Was P.L. Travers's father really an alcoholic bank employee? Yes. P.L. Travers's father, Travers Robert Goff (portrayed by Colin Farrell in the movie), was a heavy drinker.
Apr 3, 2014 · 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...
She later took the surname Travers from the first name of her father, Travers Goff, a bank employee and an alcohol abuser who fell on hard times during her childhood; Pamela, a fashionable name in the years after World War I, was her own invention.
After a brief secretarial stint, she embarked upon a career as an actress. 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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Dec 20, 2013 · Born as Helen Goff, she adored her banker father Travers Goff, a charmer who filled her life with love and story-telling even as he fell into an alcoholic abyss. After her despondent...
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Oct 22, 2018 · She was born in 1899, at Maryborough in Queensland, as Helen Lyndon Goff. Her father, Travers, was of Irish descent.
