P. L. Travers

Lynwood Pamela Travers ( Pamela Lyndon Travers also; born August 9, 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, † April 23, 1996 in London; actually Lynwood Helen Goff ) was an Australian writer. Worldwide fame she reached through her children's books about the magical nanny Mary Poppins and their successful adaptation.

Life

PL Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia as; in the literature both August 9, 1899 and March 14, 1906 are mentioned as date of birth. Her father, Travers Goff was an office worker from London, who had emigrated to Australia and married there the daughter of a wealthy family.

Helen Goff was the eldest of three daughters and grew up in a wealthy environment until she was seven years old. Then her father died, leaving the family back into poverty. At seventeen, she left her family to work as an actress, after she had taken lessons with the actor Lawrence Campbell. In 1923 she moved to England. Shortly thereafter she published her first work under the name of her father and worked as a dancer, poet and Shakespearean actress. Special affinity she had for Irish culture and the poet William Butler Yeats, in part because her father had told her falsely that he was of Irish origin. Later she told me that she had arrived with only ten pounds in England, but lived in reality in an expensive apartment, which was funded by her rich relatives, together with her friend Madge Burnand, with which it should have had a romantic relationship.

1940 PL Travers adopted a six month old baby, Camillus, one of two twin boys from a poor family of Irish origin. She brought the boy to Sussex and finally to the United States. During this time, Travers worked for the British Ministry of Information. The experiences that she made it, they processed in the novel I Go By The Sea, I Go By Country ( 1941). It is about British children being sent to the United States because of the air raids on London.

After her return from the USA Travers was a follower of Georges I. Gurdjieff esotericist, the son had to call their "Father."

Only at the age of seventeen learned Camillus Travers, that he was adopted and still had a twin brother. Travers tried to prevent contact with his brother Anthony. Although both men grew up under completely different circumstances - one wealthy, the other poor - both were alcoholics; Anthony died alone in 2005 and was buried in the presence of his drunken brother, who had also paid the funeral. Camillus, who had been married to the English actress Frances White died, 2011. Fearing that he would drink away his inheritance, PL Travers bequeathed him their money than trust that was to come later the grandchildren benefit.

1977 was PL Travers for her literary work of the award OBE ( Officer of the Order of the British Empire ).

Works

PL Travers ' best-known work are the stories about the magical nanny Mary Poppins. The first volume appeared in 1934 and was immediately successful. The manuscript was written in a cottage in Sussex, where they temporarily resided together with her friend Burnand Travers. 1935 and 1943 published further volumes. After that should be an end to the will of the author. However, they relented of the prayers of the readers and wrote five more books on magic gifted children girls.

Bibliography

  • Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, 1934), Dressler Verlag, ISBN 3-7915-3577-3 or 3-7915-3505-6
  • Mary Poppins comes back (Mary Poppins Comes Back, 1935), Dressler Verlag, ISBN 3-7915-3578-1 or 3-7915-3511-0
  • Mary Poppins opens the door (Mary Poppins Opens the Door, 1943), Dressler Verlag, ISBN 3-7915-3516-1
  • Mary Poppins in the Park (Mary Poppins in the Park, 1952), Dressler Verlag, ISBN 3-7915-3523-4
  • Mary Poppins from A to Z, 1962
  • Mary Poppins in the Kitchen, 1975
  • Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane, 1982
  • Mary Poppins and the House Next Door, 1988
  • I Go By The Sea, I Go By Land, 1941
  • In Search of the Hero: The Continuing Relevance of Myth and Fairy Tales, 1970
  • Friend Monkey, 1971
  • About The Sleeping Beauty, 1975
  • Two Pairs of Shoes, 1980
  • What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story, 1989

Films

With the Mary Poppins film produced by Walt Disney in 1964, had contributed to the screenplay conception Travers, it was not at all agree. She found the music of the Sherman Brothers inappropriate, the nanny is not strict enough and the implementation of overall sweet. Also, you disliked the animation. That's why they also refused to sell the film rights to one of the other volumes, although Disney asked her about it.

The film Saving Mr. Banks from 2013 shows her collaboration with Disney for the Mary Poppins movie. Emma Thompson plays Travers, and Walt Disney is portrayed by Tom Hanks.

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