![]() ![]() She loved animals and had a rich fantasy life, often arranging corners of her family's backyard into miniature parks. "'She can't come in, she's laying,' her family and friends would say," according to Mary Poppins, She Wrote, Valerie Lawson's biography of Travers. Often as a child, Travers imagined herself as a bird, specifically as a hen. Her father was of Irish descent and sometimes waxed maudlin about his ancestral home her mother was fond of raising her daughter with the aid of maxims and sayings, some of which found their way verbatim into the Mary Poppins books. ![]() As a writer she used only her first and middle initials, a common device in British letters especially among women who wanted their work to be appreciated on its own merits. 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. Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff on August 9, 1899, in Maryborough, in the Australian province of Queensland. This fantasy, about a nanny with magical powers, became one of the great publishing successes of the twentieth century, enjoying new bursts of popularity after the book's adaptation to film in 1964 and to a stage musical in the early 2000s. 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. ![]()
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