P.L. Travers was born in 1899 in
Maryborough in Queensland, Australia and
was one of three sisters.
She worked as a secretary, a dancer and an
actress, but writing was P.L. Travers’s real
love, and for many years she was a
journalist. It was while recuperating from a
serious illness that she wrote Mary Poppins –
“to while away the days, but also to put down
something that had been in my mind for a
long time”, she said. She recieved an OBE in
1977, and died in 1996.
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When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins into the home of the banks children, their lives go topsy-turvy and are changed forever.
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