“Large-eyed, the little ones looked at me — she and I called them the little ones, both of us aware that an eldest child, no matter how young, can never experience the heart”
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P. L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers 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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culture · Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996) · poet · writer · novelist · children's writer · journalist · actor · young adult author · also P. L. Travers, Pamela Lyndon Travers, Miss Travers, Travers
Born 9 August 1899 · Died 23 April 1996 · Q228901
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2018· 2 entries
54 years after the release of the original Mary Poppins film, a sequel was released titled Mary Poppins Returns, with Emily Blunt starring as Mary Poppins
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A crater on the planet Mercury was named in her honour
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2004· 1 entry
A stage musical adaptation of the books and the film opened in the West End; it premiered on Broadway in 2006
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1996· 8 entries
Died 1996-04-23.
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“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”
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“You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.”
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“The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.”
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“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
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“Mary Poppins is both a joy and a curse to me as a writer ... As a writer, you can feel awfully imprisoned, because people, having had so much of one thing, want you always to go on doing more of the same.”
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“Mary Poppins Goes to Hell. Pamela Travers, Gurdjieff, and the Rhetoric of Fundamentalism”
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“For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.”
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1965· 1 entry
And became writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College from 1965 to 1966 and at Smith College in 1966 and lecturing at Scripps College in 1970
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1961· 1 entry
Travers arrived in Los Angeles on a flight from London, her first-class ticket having been paid for by Disney, and finally agreed to sell the rights, in no small part because she was financially in dire straits
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1934· 1 entry
The children's book Mary Poppins was Travers' first literary success
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1933· 1 entry
While writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books
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1932· 1 entry
Published the book Moscow Excursion (1934)
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1931· 1 entry
Moved with her friend Madge Burnand from their rented flat in London to a thatched cottage in Sussex
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1927· 1 entry
They shared a London flat from 1927 to 1934, then moved to Pound Cottage near Mayfield, East Sussex, where Travers published the first of the Mary Poppins books.
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1926· 1 entry
Travers published a short story, "Mary Poppins and the Match Man", for The Sun newspaper, in Christchurch, New Zealand, which introduced the nanny character of Mary Poppins and Bert the street artist
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1925· 1 entry
When Travers met the poet George William Russell (who wrote under the name "Æ") who, as editor of the Statesman, accepted some of her poems for publication
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1914· 1 entry
Published an article in the Normanhurst School Magazine, her first, and later that year directed a school concert
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-08-09.
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