Mary Poppins - The Complete Collection (Includes all six stories in one volume)

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Lawson, Valerie (1999). Out of the Sky She Came: The Life of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. Hodder. ISBN 978-0-7336-1072-1. Fox, Margalit (1996-04-25). "P. L. Travers, Creator of the Magical and Beloved Nanny Mary Poppins, Is Dead at 96". The New York Times. Mary Poppins comes to the rescue when the Banks's family cook goes on an unexpected leave, teaching the young Banks children the basics of cooking in the process. The book includes recipes.

The 2013 motion picture Saving Mr. Banks is a dramatised retelling of both the working process during the planning of Mary Poppins and of Travers's early life, drawing parallels with Mary Poppins and that of the author's childhood. The movie stars Emma Thompson as P. L. Travers and Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. Later add-ons were Mary Poppins From A to Z(1962), Mary Poppins in the Kitchen(1975), Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane(1982), and finally, Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988).The Hamadryad: An old and wise snake (a king cobra), stated to be 'the King of all beasts', who is Mary Poppins's first cousin once removed on her mother's side. He lives at London Zoo. He is the host of Mary Poppins's birthday party whenever it falls on a full moon. Mary Poppins and other outcasts". Editorial. Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor's View (Midwesterned.). Boston, MA. 24 October 1980. p.24 . Retrieved 3 December 2018– via NewsBank. Her mother was an Australian and her father was a man of Irish descent. Her father, Travers Robert Goff was a bank manager, who was unsuccessful in his job as he was a heavy drinker. Subsequently, he was demoted to the job of a blank clerk. He died when Travers was 7 years old. After her father’s death, she went to Bowral in New South Wales, along with her family, who were helped by her great aunt. The great aunt was her inspiration for the book Aunt Sass. Travers was called Lyndon in her childhood. During the period of World War I, she boarded at a school in Ashfield (Sydney) named Normanhurst Girls School. Lawson, Valerie. Mary Poppins She Wrote: The Life of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2010.

Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Queensland, Australia, her mother was Margaret Agnes Morehead, the sister of the Premier of Queensland. Her father, Travers Goff, was an alcoholic and unsuccessful bank manager who died when she was 7 years old. In 1931, she and her friend Madge Burnand (a playwright and former editor of Punch,a satirical British magazine) moved from their shared flat in London to a cottage inSussex. This is where she began to writing Mary Poppins. The author had some cause for complaint. The first Poppins book was written in 1934, but was set 20 years earlier, in Edwardian England, and its central character, like the woman who created her, was difficult to the point of obnoxious. PL Travers described Mary Poppins as a woman who “never wastes time being nice”. She was sharp, short-tempered and a bit of a tyrant, a childcare professional with no references who did not, as in the Disney version, materialize by gliding serenely down onto the doorstep, but was hurled against the gate by the wind.Dooling Draper, Ellen; Koralek, Jenny, eds. (1999). A Lively Oracle: a Centennial Celebration of P. L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. New York: Larson Publications. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07 . Retrieved 2014-07-03. Neither was she sentimental. Poppins had little time for the Bird Woman, the vagrant stationed on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, and on the issue of avian welfare in the capital went further even than Dawes Sr – “Feed the birds and what have you got? Fat birds!” – by suggesting they should be baked in a pie. Mrs Banks is married to George Banks and is the mother of Jane, Michael, John, Barbara, and Annabel Banks. Her first name is never revealed in the books, but was given as Winifred in the film and the stage musical. In the books, she is the struggling mistress of the Banks household, and is easily intimidated by Mary Poppins, who treats her with thinly veiled contempt. In the film, she is a strident suffragette (in public; at home, she is the typical Edwardian wife) who is treated somewhat satirically. She was made into a suffragette in the film to explain why she sometimes did not have time to look after her children. In the stage musical, she is a former actress who is under constant pressure from her husband as she struggles to enter his social circle. In the 1964 Disney film, she is portrayed by Glynis Johns; in the 2004 Radio 4 drama, she is played by Deborah Berlin.

Ouzounian, Richard (2013-12-13). "P L Travers might have liked Mary Poppins onstage". The Toronto Star . Retrieved 2014-03-06. Maia: The second daughter of the seven Pleiades, who visits the children during their Christmas shopping to buy presents for all of her six sisters. a b c d e f g h i j "Goff, Helen Lyndon [ pseuds. P. L. Travers, Pamela Lyndon Travers]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/62619. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Travers never married. [18] Though she had numerous fleeting relationships with men throughout her life, she lived for more than a decade with Madge Burnand, daughter of Sir Francis Burnand, a playwright and the former editor of Punch. They shared a London flat from 1927 to 1934, then moved to Pound Cottage near Mayfield, East Sussex, where Travers published the first of the Mary Poppins books. Their relationship, in the words of one biographer, was "intense", but equally ambiguous.

McDonald, Shae (2013-12-18). "PL Travers biographer Valerie Lawson says the real Mary Poppins lived in Woollahra". Wentworth Courier. Sydney: The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) [dailytelegraph.com.au]. Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by Australian-British writer P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988. Mary Shepard was the illustrator throughout the series. [1]