Pamela L. Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers (August 9, 1899 - April 23, 1996), born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, was the author of Mary Poppins and student of G. I. Gurdjieff. Both a published poet and a novelist, she knew W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. She preferred to be called P. L. Travers.

Table of contents
1 Books by P. L. Travers
2 Books on P. L. Travers
3 External links

Books by P. L. Travers

Mary Poppins books

Novels

  • I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941)
  • Fox at the Manger (1962)
  • Friend Monkey (1971)
  • About the Sleeping Beauty (1975)
  • Two Pairs of Shoes (1976)

Collections

  • Stories from Mary Poppin (1952)
  • Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1999)
  • Mary Poppins Omnibooks (1999)

Non-fiction

  • What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story (1989)

Books on P. L. Travers

A Lively Oracle: a Centennial Celebration of P. L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, editors. (New York: Larson Publications, 1999).

External links

  • Gurdjieff by P.L. Travers, from Man, Myth and Magic: Encyclopedia of the Supernatural 12 vol., (London: Purnell, 1970-1971) reprinted on the International Gurdjieff Review web site.

  • Finding aid to Papers of P. L. Travers in State Library of New South Wales (pdf file).






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