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Thompson, David. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914–63. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1965.
Travers, P. L., “Gurdjieff” in Man, Myth and Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural. Edited by Richard Cavendish. London: Purnell for BPC, 1970–1972.
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Yeats, W. B. The Poems. London: Dent, 1990.
Published Books by P. L. Travers
Moscow Excursion. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934.
Mary Poppins. London: Gerald Howe, 1934.
Mary Poppins Comes Back. London: L. Dickson & Thompson, 1935.
I Go by Sea, I Go by Land. London: Peter Davies, 1941.
Aunt Sass. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941.
Ah Wong. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943.
Johnny Delaney. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944.
Mary Poppins Opens the Door. London: Peter Davies, 1944.
Mary Poppins in the Park. London: Peter Davies, 1952.
Mary Poppins from A to Z. London: Collins, 1963.
The Fox at the Manger. London: Collins, 1963.
Friend Monkey, London: Collins, 1972.
About the Sleeping Beauty. London: Collins, 1975.
Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story. New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
Two Pairs of Shoes. New York: Viking Press, 1980.
Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane. London: Collins, 1982.
Mary Poppins and the House Next Door. New York: Delacorte Press, 1989.
What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth and Symbol. Welling-borough, UK: Aquarian Press, 1989.
Index
Adams, Ansel, 215
AE. See Russell, George William (known as AE)
African Genesis (Ardrey), 293
Albert, Uncle, 264, 265, 267
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 155–56, 296, 302
Allen, Jay Presson, 347–48
Allora, Queensland, 35–38, 142, 330, 343, 360
American Indians, 169, 208–17
Amherst College, 302
Amherst Record, 307
Anderson, Margaret, 182, 185
Andrew, Miss, 32, 144, 351–52
Andrews, Julie
family of, 260, 261
in Mary Poppins movie, 143, 146, 245–46, 255, 271, 272, 273, 275–76
meets PLT, 261
at premiere of Mary Poppins movie, 278
roles in musicals of, 259–60
roles in other movies of, 276
signs contract for Mary Poppins movie, 260–61
writes to PLT on filming of Mary Poppins, 266–67
Anthony, Bridget, 191, 239
Apocrypha, 358
Aquarian Press, 353
Ardrey, Robert, 293
Australia
PLT denies as birthplace, 302
PLT returns to, 268–69
See also Allora, Queensland; Bowral, New South Wales
Australian Joint Stock Bank, 16, 17, 23, 29, 35, 36
Ay, Robertson, 72, 100, 147, 148, 153
Baddeley, Hermione, 263, 278
Baeyertz, Charles, 72, 74
Balloon Woman, 153
Banks, Annabel, 19, 154
Banks, Barbara, 100–101, 153, 154
Banks, George, 17–18, 79, 139, 147, 150, 152, 159–60, 206, 208, 236, 342, 343, 350–51, 361
in Mary Poppins movie, 251, 252–54, 263, 264, 265, 272, 273
models for: Alfred Richard Orage, 130, 131, 361;
Allan Wilkie, 63, 361;
E. V. Knox, 164, 208;
Francis Macnamara, 165–67;
Frank Morton, 72, 361;
George William Russell, 88;
Karlfried von Dürckheim, 280;
Lawrence Campbell, 58, 361;
Staffan Bergsten, 325;
Travers Goff, 14, 17–18, 147, 159, 252
origin, 13–14
Banks, Jane, 18, 19, 37, 100–101, 144, 148, 153, 206–7, 237, 238, 351
in Mary Poppins movie, 252, 259, 262, 263
Banks, John, 100–101, 153, 154, 156
Banks, Michael, 18, 100–101, 148, 149, 156, 206–7, 238, 351
in Mary Poppins movie, 252, 259, 263, 265, 267
Banks, Mrs., 144, 145, 147–48, 150, 208, 234, 324
in Mary Poppins movie, 251, 252, 263, 264–65, 266
Banks Family, 17–18, 100–101, 147, 148–49, 150, 152–57, 206, 236–38, 342, 343
Linnet family compared with, 315
in Mary Poppins movie, 252–54, 265–66
Barrie, J. M., 156, 278
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson (Gurdjieff), 228
Bennett, John Gondolphin, 226
Bergsten, Staffan, 155, 325–27, 328–29, 333–34, 342, 343, 350, 352
Bernstein, Leah Rose, 114–15
Bert, 72, 101, 160
in Mary Poppins movie, 254–55, 259, 262, 264, 265–66, 267, 277
Mary Poppins premiere, 271
Bird Woman, 151, 153, 238–39
in Mary Poppins movie, 258, 262, 264
Blake, William, 24, 101, 144, 154–55, 284, 300, 352, 360
Blavatsky, Helena, 90–91, 131, 133
Bly, R. H., 269, 332
Bolitho, Hector, 72, 76, 79
books. See Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT). Published Works: Books
Boom, Admiral, 147
in Mary Poppins movie, 263
Mary Poppins premiere, 271
Bowral, New South Wales, 49–53, 286–87, 343
Brecht, Bertolt, 319
Brett, Dorothy, 213, 215
Brill, Clara, 147
in Mary Poppins movie, 265
Brook, Peter, 332
Buddhism, 330
Bull, Donald, 248, 251
The Bulletin, 71–72, 73, 79
Burnand, Madge
AE s death, 174
death, 241, 242
friendship with Mary Shepard, 163
friendship with PLT, 117, 125, 181–82, 183–84, 186–87, 188–89, 200
holidays with PLT, 116, 120
Hone family, 190
marriage, 218
Mary Poppins Comes Back, 178
at Pound Cottage with PLT, 123–25, 128, 129, 181–82
publishing contacts, 161
shares flat with PLT, 111, 119, 121
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 156
Butler, Dr. Francelia, 346
Butler, Hubert, 126–27, 189, 191
Calvino, Italo, 332
Camillus. See Travers, Camillus (PLT’s son)
Campbell, Joseph, 332
Campbell, Lawrence, 58–59, 63, 64, 85, 361
Campbell, Robert, 94
Canada, PLT travels to, 194, 195–218
Candle of Vision (AE), 169
Carroll, Lewis, 156, 296
Carson, Rachel, 304
CBS TV, 236
Central Park, New York, 310–11
Chaplin, Charlie, 319
Charles, Prince of Wales, 332
Charlotte’s Web (White and Williams), 296
Chatham College, 335
&n
bsp; Cherry Tree Foundation, 357
Cherry Tree Lane, 146–47, 251, 271
Cherry Tree Trust, 325
children’s literature, 156–57, 165, 304, 309
Christchurch Sun, 69, 70, 80, 82, 84, 87, 97, 98, 100
Christianity, 332–33
Collier, John, 93, 169, 201, 208–9, 210, 214
Collins (publisher), 268, 269, 278, 328, 344, 353
Colum, Padraic, 87, 94
Conversations (Newquist), 277
Cooper, Edith Elizabeth, 166
Corry, Mrs., 50–51, 52–53, 144, 151, 152, 153, 238, 342
Cott, Jonathan, 101, 335–36
Coward, Vanessa, 256
Crist, Judith, 275
Cronin, Paula, 297
Crowther, Bosley, 275
Curran, Con, 174, 175
Curtis, Mark, 321
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 354, 359
Da Gradi, Don, 247, 251, 264, 265
Dalai Lama, 332
dance, Gurdjieffian, 186, 230
Daniele, Graciela, 351
Darwell, Jane, 263–64
David Higham Associates, 341, 347
Davies, Peter, 208
de Valera, Eamon, 176
Delacorte/Dell (publisher), 345, 353
Delaney, Johnny, 29, 38, 217
Desborough, Ethel, 291
Devas, Nicolette, 166, 167, 223
Diaghilev, Serge, 85, 134
Disney, Diane, 246
Disney, Lilian, 246, 250, 264
Disney, Roy, 246
Disney, Walt, 143, 146, 235, 242, 244–50, 276–77, 278
death, 277
Mary Poppins movie, 246–55, 259–60, 270–74
movies, 246–47, 249
Disneyland, 260, 271
Doran, Peggy, 63
Dorling, Dorothea, 318, 330–31
Dotrice, Karen, 262, 263
Dover, William B. “Bill,” 242, 247, 270–71
Downing, Marjorie, 322
Dürckheim, Karlfried von, 280–81, 301, 314, 317–18, 332
Dwight, Jessie Richards. See Orage, Jessie
Ecclesiastes, 337
Eglinton, John, 89, 106, 126, 173, 174
Eliot, T. S., 86, 181, 185, 197, 221, 235–36, 327, 357, 361
Elizabeth II, Queen, 323, 333
Ellen (maid), 147, 342–43
in Mary Poppins movie, 263, 265
Ellie, Aunt. See Morehead, Helen Christina (PLT’s great aunt) (known as Ellie)
Ellsberg, Daniel, 292
England, 79–87, 208–9
essays. See Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT). Published Works: Essays
Euripides, 312
Europe, PLT travels to, 115–16, 126–28, 182, 318
Everett, Minnie, 61–63
Everyday Therapy (Dürckheim), 281
fairy tales, 28, 41–42, 145, 202–3, 207, 293–94, 297, 316–17, 331
Feiffer, Jules, 351
Feltham, Patricia, 355, 357–59
The Feminine Mystique (Friedan), 264
Ferber, Edna, 215
Field, Michele, 350
Fisher, Jules, 347–51
Forbes-Robertson, Sir Johnston, 62, 64–65
Forster, E. M., 297, 306
Forster, Patricia, 307, 309
Fox, Margalit, 358
Frankel, Haskel, 281–83
Friedan, Betty, 264
Garber, Matthew, 263, 267
Garbo, Greta, 319
George V, King, 86
Gerrard, Nicci, 356
Gibbon, Monk, 177–78
Gibran, Kahlil, 304
Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 352
Gilbert, Helen, 292
Giron, Arthur, 349
Gloriano, Sam, 205, 217–18
Goff, Barbara Irene (Biddy). See Moriarty, Barbara (PLT’s sister)
Goff, Cicely Margaret (Moya) (PLT’s sister), 30, 35, 55, 118, 268, 336, 349
Goff, Helen Lyndon. See Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT)
Goff, Henry Lyndon Bradish (PLT’s grandfather), 15, 305, 316
Goff, Margaret (née Morehead) (PLT’s mother)
cared for by Aunt Ellie, 21
death, 118, 177
dedication of Mary Poppins to, 139, 162, 179–80
husband s death, 53–56
investments squandered, 22–23
marriage, 23
relationship with PLT, 35, 118, 287
trip to England, 99
Goff, Travers Robert (PLT’s father)
banking career, 16, 17, 29–30, 35
birth, 15
death, 46–47, 159, 286, 333
drinking, 14, 24, 46, 47, 333
Irish fantasies, 14, 27
letters to Margaret, 24–25
marriage, 24
model for Banks, 14, 17–18, 147, 159, 252
relationship with PLT, 26, 44–45
travels to Australia, 15
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 87, 89, 94, 113, 118, 120, 166, 174
Goldwyn, Samuel, 274–75
Good, Jimmy, 95, 109, 111
Goodman, Arnold Abraham, 240, 241, 242–43, 247
Goodman Derrick, 240, 242, 247, 357
Gordon, Elizabeth, 182, 185
Graham, Janet, 277, 283–84
Grahame, Kenneth, 156
The Green Room (magazine), 70
Gregory, Don, 218
Grimble, Arthur, 352
Guppy, Shusha, 316, 358
Gurdjieff, George Ivanovitch, 130–36, 185–86, 215, 225–33, 234, 361
death, 230–33
followers, 182, 185, 198, 225–26, 228, 231–33, 239, 323, 331, 334, 338
PLT as counselor, 336
at PLT s death, 354, 358, 359
PLT’s dreams of, 335
teachings, 132–33, 185–86, 313, 331
Gurdjieff Society, 355
Hachette (publisher), 270
Haggarty, Ben, 357, 359
Haigh, Pamela, 307–8
Halley’s Comet, 53
Hamadryad, 151, 152, 154
Hammarskjold, Dag, 332
Hanuman, 316–17, 326, 330
Hara: the Vital Centre of Man (Dürckheim), 281
Harcourt Brace & World (publisher), 236, 256, 270, 271
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (publisher), 344–46
Harold Ober Associates, 344
Harris, Martin, 314, 329
The Harvard Crimson, 292, 302
Harvard Lampoon, 292
Harvard University, 291–92, 295, 341
Haugh, Irene, 120, 121
Heap, Jane, 182, 185, 226, 231
Herald Tribune, 346
Hermes, Gertrude, 196–98, 204, 210, 330
Heron, T. M., 221
Hickory, Mrs., 238
The Hobbit (Tolkien), 296, 304
Hodgson Burnett, Frances, 156–57
Holloway, Stanley, 263
Hone, Anthony Marlow, 191–92, 239–40
Hone, Geraldine, 191
Hone, Joe, 191, 241–42
Hone, John Camillus. See Travers, Camillus (PLT’s son)
Hone, Joseph, 189–92, 222–23
Hone, Nathaniel, 190–91, 223, 239, 242, 314
Hone, Sally, 190, 192
Hone, Sheila, 313–14
Hone, Vera, 190, 191
Horn Book Review, 322
House, Adrian, 358
Hoving, Thomas, 310
Howards End (Forster), 306
Howarth, Dushka, 229, 318, 355, 357
Howarth, Jessmin, 186, 194, 198, 318, 337
Howe, Gerald, 161–62, 164
Hulme, Kathryn, 182–83
Hurlimann, Bettina, 321, 342, 347
Huxley, Aldous, 319
Huxley-Jones, T. B., 310
illustrations in PLT’s books, 162–64, 208, 238, 256–58, 343–44
In Search of the Miraculous (Ouspensky), 337
Inventing Wonderland (Wullschlager), 156
Ireland, 77–78, 79, 82–83, 88–95, 101–108, 112, 189, 325
Irish Agricultural Organization Society, 93, 94
Irish Homestead (magazine), 94
Irish Literary Society, 92
Irish National Theatre, 92
Irish Statesman (magazine), 87, 94–97, 111, 116, 118, 120–21, 123, 176
Isherwood, Christopher, 319
Japan, PLT travels to, 268, 269
Japan and the Culture of Silence (Dürckheim), 281
Jarrell, Randall, 293
Jessup, Pamela, 357
John, Augustus, 166
John Lyndon Ltd., 248
Johns, Glynis, 263, 264
Jones, Constable, in Mary Poppins movie, 263
Jung, Carl, 214
Kaplan, Martin, 350
Katie Nanna, 148
in Mary Poppins movie, 263
Keats, John, 77, 219
Keller, Helen, 290
Kennedy (John F.) family, 261
Kent, Duke of, 334
Keria, 352–53
Kingsley, Mary, 315
Kirkus Reviews, 328
Kirstein, Lincoln, 185, 332
Klemperer, Elizabeth von, 304
Knox, E. V., 164, 208
Koralek, Jenny, 325, 329
Krishnamurti, 313, 318–20, 324, 332, 361
Krishnamurti Foundation, 332
Lamont House, Smith College, 303, 304
Lanchester, Elsa, 263
Lark, Miss, 32, 144, 147, 150, 237, 342
Laurents, Arthur, 348
Law, Hugh, 105, 106
Law, Lota, 105, 106, 176–77
Lawrence, D. H., 85, 213, 214–15, 319
Lawrence, Frieda, 213, 215, 217, 319
Leadbetter, Charles Webster, 318–19
Lear, Edward, 156
Leblanc, Georgette, 182, 185
Lerner, Alan Jay, 348, 349
Lewis, C. S., 177, 296
Lewis, Peggy, 302
Library of Congress, Washington, 306
The Life of George Moore (Hone), 189
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 304
Lingeman, Richard R., 309–10
Linnet Family, 315
Listener, 329
Literary Digest, 96–97
The Lives of Alcyone (Leadbetter), 319
Lives in the Shadow (Rajagopal), 320
London, 84–87, 98–99, 328
Look (magazine), 308–9
Loos, Anita, 319
Lord, Mrs. Deane, 290, 303, 308
Los Angeles Times, 345
Lovat Dickson & Thompson (publishers), 162
Luhan, Mabel, 213, 214–15, 217
Luhan, Tony, 213, 214
Luti, 352
McCartney, Paul, 348
McGraw-Hill (publisher), 325
Mackintosh, Cameron, 356, 360
MacLeish, Archibald, 201
Macnamara, Francis, 165–67, 184, 189–90, 191, 222–23, 335
Macnamara, Henry, 166
McNeil, Edie, 166
McVeigh, Linda, 292–93
McWhirter, Prof., 315
Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon (Washington), 319