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Download * Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers PDF by ! Valerie Lawson eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers –Library JournalThe spellbinding stories of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical nanny, have been loved by generations. She became involved with Theosophy, traveled in the literary circles of W.B. The remarkable life of P.L. Yet it was a love of mysticism and magic that shaped Travers’s life as well as the character of Mary Poppins. The fabulous English nanny was actually conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who came to London in 1924 fr
| Title | : | Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (514 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476762929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
–Library JournalThe spellbinding stories of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical nanny, have been loved by generations. She became involved with Theosophy, traveled in the literary circles of W.B. The remarkable life of P.L. Yet it was a love of mysticism and magic that shaped Travers’s life as well as the character of Mary Poppins. The fabulous English nanny was actually conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who came to London in 1924 from Queensland as a journalist. Yeats and T.S. She was tart and sharp, plain and vain. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins.An arresting life…Lawson is superb at excavating the details. Eliot, and became a disciple of the famed spiritual guru, Gurdjieff. She flew into the lives of the un
Her previous books are Connie Sweetheart and The Allens Affair. . Valerie Lawson is a feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. She lives in Sydney and London
Never married, Travers adopted an Irish baby boy; Lawson movingly reveals the emotional fallout of their failed relationship. 14)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Drawing on archival sources and private papers, Lawson, a writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, sensitively traces Travers's emotionally deprived girlhood in Australia, where she was raised largely by an elderly aunt; her early career as an actress and columnist; and her 1924 emigration to London, where she worked as a journalist and theater reviewer. 2 photo inserts. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly The original Mary Poppins was not as "saccharine" as the movie character, says Lawson, and her bittersweet biography of the supernanny's elusive creator, Travers (1899–1996), convincingly portrays a writer who created her character out of the childhood sorr
"A Good Primer" according to V. Nolan. For anyone who loves Mary Poppins, in any or all of her incarnations, this book serves as a great introduction to the evolution of the character. The biography paints a great portrait of the woman best known as the creator of Mary Poppins, while being quite blunt about her shortcomings, personality quirks, and key moments and people in her life which are all reflected somewhere in the text of the Mary Poppins books. Knowing what makes this author tick makes reading the Poppins books themselves a more meaningful experience as the reader can harken back to a. Sharon S. said A sad and disappointed life. After seeing the movie, Saving Mr.Banks, I wanted to know more about P.L.Travers. Unfortunately, I learned more (boring stuff) about the the literary and philosophical circles P.L.Travers traveled in than I did about the woman herself.As a fan of the Mary Poppins books, having borrowed them from the library many times as a child, I already knew that the Walt Disney movie starring Julie Andrews (!) was its own fantasy, rather than a cinematic portrayal of the Mary Poppins I knew from P.L.Travers' books. After reading 'Mary Poppins, She Wrote' I believe that. "A Multi-Faceted Life" according to John D. Cofield. Everyone who has seen Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" has a mental image of P.L. Travers' famous nanny: Julie Andrews floating down from the clouds with her umbrella, ready to say "Snip-snap!" or "Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious!" In reality Mary Poppins as imagined by her creator was a far more complex and even at times disturbing creature, and the same thing can be said of P.L. Travers herself. For many years Travers was a mystery, but this biography by Valerie Lawson, which was first published in 1999 and has now been reissued in the wake of the new mov
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