Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers
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“Raggedy-taggedy Gipsy Man,” 72;
“Song Before a Journey,” 79;
“Surrender,” 69–70;
“Te Deum of a Lark,” 96.
Short stories: “The Day Out,” 101;
“Happy Ever After,” 198–99;
“The Marble Boy,” 100;
“Mary Poppins and the Match Man,” 100;
“Story for Children Big and Small,” 99–100;
“The Strange Story of the Dancing Cow,” 100
RADIO BROADCASTS, in United States, 201–2, 298–300
VIEWS ON: animals, 304–5;
Australia/Australians, 77, 268–69;
crones, 144–45, 283, 289–90, 294, 306;
education, 307, 309;
England, 221;
feminism, 78, 80, 264–65, 294–95;
grandmothers, 283;
rocking chairs, 293, 301;
sorrow, 283–84;
United States, 221
Treacher, Arthur, 263
The Triad (magazine), 63, 66, 70, 72–74, 79, 80, 83, 86–87, 99, 110, 116, 123
Turvey, Arthur, 151
Two Flamboyant Fathers (Devas), 223
United States
PLT’s longing for, 334
PLT’s travels in, 184, 198–218, 249
See also Arizona; New York; Radcliffe College; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Scripps College; Smith College
universities (U.S.), 291–92
University of Texas, 314, 341
Updike, John, 332
van der Post, Laurens, 332
Van Dyke, Dick, 245, 262–63, 265, 267, 272, 275, 279
Viking (publisher), 344
Vision (magazine), 70
Vockins, Doris, 181–82, 186–87
von Dürckheim, Karlfried. See Dürckheim, Karlfried von
W. W. Norton (publisher), 199, 258
Waddell, Helen, 175
Walker, Card, 250
Walker, Kenneth, 248
Wallace, Henry, 93, 122, 169, 173, 201
Walsh, Bill, 247–48, 251, 264, 265
Walt Disney Productions, 242–43, 248, 350, 358, 360
Walt Disney Television, 348–49
Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins books, 270, 271
Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins (movie), 101, 242–55, 277, 278
Walton, Tony, 260, 261, 266
Washington, Peter, 319
The Way of Transformation: Daily Life as a Spiritual Exercise (Dürckheim), 317
A Way of Working: the Spiritual Dimension of Craft (Dorling and PLT), 332
Weekes, Charles, 172, 174, 175
Welch, Bill, 230, 239, 241, 255, 323
Wells, H. G., 131
White, E. B., 296
Whitman Hall, Radcliffe College, 291, 292
Wigg, Alfred, 151
Wilbur, Richard, 347
Wilde, Oscar, 182
Wilder, Thornton, 215
Wilkie, Allan, 58–59, 63–66, 68–69, 70, 83, 85, 361
Williams, Garth, 296
Williams, Rosalind, 320
The Wind in the Willows (Grahame), 144, 156, 157–58, 296
Window Rock, Arizona, 210–17
Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne), 144, 157, 296, 302, 308
Winsten, Archer, 275
Woods, Uncle Dodger, 50–51, 160
Wordsworth, William, 154, 155
World War, 1939–1945, 188, 192–94, 216, 218–19
evacuation of children from Britain, 195–97
United States involvement in, 201–2
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 198
Wullschlager, Jackie, 156, 157
Wynn, Ed, 264, 267
Yeats, William Butler
AE’s biography, 178
AE’s death, 172, 174, 176
AE’s friendship, 88, 90, 93, 119, 126
Camillus adoption, 189
Gogarty, 112
health, 102
home, 94
influence on PLT, 83, 87–88, 92, 96, 101, 102, 103–104, 112, 116, 117, 144, 154, 361
occult, 90, 102, 123, 131
PLT sets poems to music, 112
PLT’s adoration, 325
PLT’s Innisfree gift to, 103–104
PLT’s reading of, 27, 273
poems, 26, 103, 112, 273
Pound’s views of, 85
salons, 93, 112
self/pseudonyms, 102, 116
testimonial for PLT, 119
A Vision, 154
Zen, 145, 176, 267–69, 323, 332
Zen in English Literature (Bly), 269
Ziner, Feenie, 323
Illustration Sources
Page 1: The Travers family collection
Page 2: Photographed by Valerie Lawson, 1996; The Travers family collection
Page 3: State Library of New South Wales; Green Room magazine
Page 4: The Travers Collection in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
Page 5: The Travers family collection; Photographed by Valerie Lawson, 1997
Pages 6 and 7: Illustrations from the Mary Poppins books by Mary Shepard, reproduced courtesy of N. E. Middleton Artists’ Agency
Page 8: Hulton Getty; (top right and bottom): The Travers family collection
Page 9: The Travers family collection
Page 10: © Earl Thiesen/LOOK magazine, reproduced by permission
Page 11: © Earl Thiesen/LOOK magazine, reproduced by permission; Modern Woman magazine, January 1965; Everybody’s, November 11, 1964; The Travers Collection in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
Pages 12: and 13: The Travers Collection in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
Page 14: The Travers Collection in the Mitchell Library, Sydney; The Australian Women’s Weekly, December 28, 1966
Page 15: The Drapers’ Record; The Travers Collection in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
Page 16: The Travers family collection; © LOOK magazine; © Jane Bown 1995, reproduced by permission
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1. Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899–1996. 2. Authors, English—20th century—Biography. 3. Authors, Australian—20th century—Biography. 4. Australians—England—Biography. 5. Poppins, Mary (Fictitious character). I. Title.
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