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# Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Couldn't put it down--P. L. Travers life was as fantastic as Mary Poppins
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2014*

This biography is well-researched. For someone who didn't want her life to be written about after her death, P. L. Travers certainly left extensive notes in a public library and the author not only used those notes, but was able to briefly contact Travers shortly before her death, though as fate would have it, their meeting never took place. From this rich source of material, author Valerie Lawson wrote a detailed and fascinating biography of the creator of "Mary Poppins."Despite having read all the Poppins books as a child, I knew nothing about P. L. Travers. She changed her name, she was Australian, though she comes across as British as a cup of strong tea, she had been an actress on the stage and she followed mystic Gurdjieff, among other odd facts. The book is detailed, especially about Travers' parents. This is slow going at first, but provides valuable background into her childhood, not a happy childhood but one that created vast sources to draw from to create the world of Mary Poppins. It was fascinating to learn who was the real life Mrs. Corry and her gigantic daughters who ran a candy shop. Was her domineering and inflexible great-aunt the source of the more rigid and snappish side of Mary Poppins?I couldn't put this book down. You have to like biographies, with lots of detail, because Lawson is a journalist and really goes into journalistic detail. This book was actually originally published in Australia in 1999, but due to the recent film "The Real Mr. Banks", it has gotten attention. I couldn't put it down--I love biographies, especially of authors and I was amazed at what I didn't know about the life of P. L. Travers. Highly recommended, with the caution that you have to like a lot of factual stuff because this is a biography and not a novel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    STILL AN ENIGMA
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2006*

Valerie Lawson has done something P. L. Travers claimed she didn't want anyone to do: write her biography.  It's a very good book.  Travers discouraged personal questions in interviews, and preferred to discuss her work and, in later years, her philosophy of life -- the essence of experience as opposed to the mundane details of living.  Lawson makes the case that if Travers had been serious about this she would have destroyed her papers -- which she decidedly did not do.  Whatever her true feelings on the matter, this is a fascinating book, filled with insights into Travers' life and work, and with a respectable amount of attention to the work itself, especially the meanings and importance of the Mary Poppins books.I think Lawson gives somewhat short shrift to Travers work with Parabola magazine, which is some of her most brilliant writing -- inspiring to thousands of her readers, and collected in the now out of print "What the Bee Knows." (Note to publishers: bring it back!)  You may also find out more than you want to known about her endless toing and froing with Disney, and the ways in which the movie deal echoed through the last thirty years of her life.But Lawson also gives the first comprehensive account of Travers' private life, her involvement AE and Gurdieff, her adoption of one twin, her son Camillus, and her early career as an actress.  Her love affairs are touched on.I'm not sure, in the end, if all the private matters, interesting as they may be, really add to our understanding of Travers' work, though Lawson makes some persuasive connections between the fantasy and the reality.  Mary Poppins herself, the Great Exception, survives the biography with her mystery intact, and in spite of Lawson's sympathetic and thorough craftsmanship, so does Travers.  For those of us lucky ones who count Travers as a touchstone in our lives, that's just fine.  Questions without answers can often be more satisfying than the other kind.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    the 2nd half is bound to be as good as or better than the first half and I ...
  

*by S***G on Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2017*

I gave this book 4 stars only because it is not for everyone...I really feel it is a 5-star book due to the amount of research and effort the author put into it...it is a very in depth-read for those who are fans of the movie "Saving Mr. Banks"...I saw the movie 3 times simply because I would forget parts of it and I did not want to forget any of it!...this is a slightly thick book requiring dedicated reading time to plow thru it...the author goes into every detail (including statements in personal correspondence) and description of all of P.L. Travers friends, mentors, and travels in her young adult years and relates all of this information as to how it affected her development of the Mary Poppins stories...the book contains photographs also including one of P.L. at 20 months!...the latter half of the book deals with her motherhood and the Disney years...I am still reading in the first half so that is what I am commenting on but, based on what I have read so far, the 2nd half is bound to be as good as or better than the first half and I can't wait to read more!...I would recommend this book for serious fans of Ms Travers and her work.

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