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P. L. Travers
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Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)
OverviewAI-generated
P. L. Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, was an Australian and British poet, writer, and novelist. Writing in English, she is noted for her work in children's literature, including the novels *Mary Poppins* and *Mary Poppins Opens the Door*. Her archives are held at the State Library of New South Wales.
Travers received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She died of epilepsy in London on 23 April 1996.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 August 1899
- Died
- 23 April 1996
- Works
- 103
Top works
- Mary Poppins (illustrated Gift Edition)
- Mary Poppins - the Complete Collection
- mary poppins in the park
- Walt Disney's story of Mary Poppins with Record
- Meri Poppins
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Maryborough, Queensland
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (/ˈtrævərs/; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-English writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of children's books, which feature the magical nanny Mary Poppins. Description above from the Wikipedia article P.L. Travers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on…
Known for
- Mary Poppins: From Page to Stage — Self (archive footage)2009
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1899
- Active to
- 1996
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 31
- Total plays
- 371
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/P.+L.+Travers">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Infliximab for Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis
· 2005 · cited 3,310x
- Real-Time DNA Sequencing from Single Polymerase Molecules
· 2009 · cited 3,239x
- Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine
· 2018 · cited 1,918x
- Infliximab Maintenance Therapy for Fistulizing Crohn's Disease
· 2004 · cited 1,863x
- Functional and Genomic Analyses Reveal an Essential Coordination between the Unfolded Protein Response and ER-Associated Degradation
· 2000 · cited 1,751x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “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.”
- “There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.”
- “When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.”
- “The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.”
- “Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.”
- “A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Helen Lyndon Goff , ( 1899-08-09 ) 9 August 1899, Maryborough , Colony of Queensland , British Empire
- Died
- 23 April 1996 (1996-04-23) (aged 96), Chelsea , London, England
- Resting place
- St Mary the Virgin's Church, Twickenham , London
- Pen name
- Pamela Lyndon Travers
- Occupation
- Writer actress journalist
- Genre
- Children's literature, fantasy
- Notable works
- Mary Poppins book series
- Relatives
- Barbara Moriarty (sister)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to P. L. Travers, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (/ˈtrævərz/ TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) 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.
Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon immigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “P. L. Travers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.