Mary Poppins, she wrote : the life of P.L. Travers
(2013)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/TRAVERS,P

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/TRAVERS,P Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster paperbacks, 2013
EDITION
Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

x, 401 pages, 16 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781476762920, 1476762929
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Mary Poppins she wrote" was previously published in London by Aurum, 2005. It was originally published by Hodder in 1999 under title: Out of the sky she came

The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. She was instantly hailed as a classic, then became a household name when Julie Andrews stepped into the role in Disney's hugely successful film. Now she is a Broadway sensation all over again. But the story of Mary Poppins's creator, as this first biography reveals, is just as unexpected and remarkable. Australian journalist Pamela Lyndon Travers came to London in 1924. She became involved with theosophy and traveled in the literary circles of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Most famously, she clashed with Walt Disney over the film adaptation. As tart and opinionated as the big-screen Mary Poppins was cheery, her love of mysticism and magic shaped her life as well as the character of the clipped, strict and ultimately mysterious nanny. She fervently believed that "everyday life is the miracle."--From publisher description

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