Pamela Lyndon Travers (
August 9,
1899 -
April 23,
1996), born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough,
Queensland,
Australia, was the author of
Mary Poppins and student of
G. I. Gurdjieff. Both a published poet and a novelist, she knew
W. B. Yeats and
T. S. Eliot. She preferred to be called P. L. Travers.
Mary Poppins books
- Mary Poppins (1934)
- Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935)
- Mary Poppins in the Park (1935)
- Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1943)
- Gingerbread Shop (1952)
- Mr. Wigg's Birthday Party (1952)
- The Magic Compass (1953)
- Mary Poppins From A-Z (1962)
- Mary Poppins in the Kitchen (1975)
- Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
- Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988)
Novels
- I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941)
- Fox at the Manger (1962)
- Friend Monkey (1971)
- About the Sleeping Beauty (1975)
- Two Pairs of Shoes (1976)
Collections
- Stories from Mary Poppin (1952)
- Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1999)
- Mary Poppins Omnibooks (1999)
Non-fiction
- What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story (1989)
A Lively Oracle: a Centennial Celebration of P. L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins. Ellen Dooling Draper and Jenny Koralek, editors. (New York: Larson Publications (http://www.larsonpublications.org/catalog/lively-oracle), 1999).
- Gurdjieff (http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers1.htm) by P.L. Travers, from Man, Myth and Magic: Encyclopedia of the Supernatural 12 vol., (London: Purnell, 1970-1971) reprinted on the International Gurdjieff Review (http://www.gurdjieff.org) web site.
- Finding aid (http://www.slnsw.gov.au/mssguide/ptravers.pdf) to Papers of P. L. Travers in State Library of New South Wales (pdf file).