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- Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (/ ˈtrævərz / 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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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.
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.
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.
- Richard Pallardy
British author P. L. Travers (1899–1996), although the author of many writings for children and adults, was best known for her 1934 book Mary Poppins and its sequels.
How Did P.L. Travers, the Prickly Author of Mary Poppins, Really Fare Against Walt Disney? Historian Amy Henderson searches for the spoonfuls of sugar-coated truth in the new film, “Saving Mr ...
Mary Poppins, the first novel in a series of children’s books written by P.L. Travers, published in 1934. The titular character is a sensible English nanny with magical powers, and the book uses mythological allusion and biting social critique to explore the fraught relationship between children and adults.
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.
