Kontea p&l travers biography

Wonder woman

Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland , and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P.

Travers in while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books. After years of contact, which included visits to Travers at her home in London, Walt Disney obtained the rights and the film Mary Poppins premiered in In , a stage musical adaptation of the books and the film opened in the West End ; it premiered on Broadway in A film based on Disney's efforts to persuade Travers to sell him the Mary Poppins film rights was released in , Saving Mr.

Banks , in which Travers is portrayed by Emma Thompson. In a sequel to the original film, Mary Poppins Returns , Poppins, played by Emily Blunt , returns to help the Banks family once again. Helen Lyndon Goff, also known as Lyndon, was born on 9 August in Maryborough , Queensland, Australia, at her family's home [ 3 ] , which was the upstairs manager's residence at a bank in the city's "Central Business District CBD ".

Although she was born in Australia, Goff considered herself Irish and later expressed the sentiment that her birth had been "misplaced". As a baby she visited her great aunt Ellie in Sydney for the first time; Ellie would figure prominently in her early life, [ 7 ] as Goff often stayed with her.