Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (9 August, 1899 - 23 April, 1996) was the creator of the famous fictional nanny known as Mary Poppins, from the book of the same name. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes (née Morehead). Her father died when she was seven, and, although "epileptic seizure delirium" was given as the cause of death, … Wikipedia
In the current New Yorker is a letter to the editor from Valerie Lawson, in response to Caitlin Flanagans December 19 article on Pamela Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins. www.cjr.org/issues/2006/1/lettertoeditor.asp
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for P. L. Travers. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%2e_L%2e_Travers
Travers spent her childhood in Australia. By the time she reached her twenties, she had already worked as an actor, a dancer, and a writer in her native land. Eager to see more of the world, she left for Dublin, where she befriended the great Irish poet amsaw.org/amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-080904-travers.html
