![]() ![]() ![]() So she took off for England, where she abandoned the theater for journalism - and the novels that would make her famous. (She took his first name as her surname to pursue an acting career, simply inventing the first name Pamela.) Despite her father’s demotion and death, the family remained in relative comfort, thanks to wealthy relatives, who, however, disapproved of Travers’s theatrical ambitions. But her personal life was often muddled.īorn Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia in 1899, Travers was the daughter of Travers Goff, a banker, drinker and bamboozler who died when she was 7. The six Mary Poppins books, published over a 50-year period, brought Travers professional success. Gurdjieff and found time along the way to create a beloved fictional character who has been adored by generations of children (and adults). ![]() She hobnobbed with Yeats, wrote poetry, traveled the world, followed the mystic G. ![]()
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