Mary Poppins She Wrote: The Life of P.L. TraversAurum, 2005 - 380 頁 Mary Poppins opened last year in London's West End in Cameron Mackintosh's musical production and has proved a huge success predicted to run for at least five years. Next year it is due to open on Broadway in New york. Meanwhile the Disney film has just been re-released on DVD, and the books remain in print and as classic as ever. But this is the first full biography of the woman who wrote the Mary Poppins books, and a fascinating and extraordinary life it was too. P.L. Travers was Australian, came to London as a journalist early in the twentieth century, became involved with Theosophism, got to know W.B. Yeats and George Russell, took her lifelong quest for guru-figures on to Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti - and lived into her nineties. By the end of her life, in the seventies, she was living in a flat off London's Kings Road and going to chat to the punks outside Malcolm McLaren's clothing shop life that spanned most of the twentieth century: it also sheds a fascinating light on the writing, and the true essence, of the Mary Poppins books: Mary Poppins herself was above all a kind of guru-figure who floated in and out of the Banks family's life to show them the possibility of other worlds... |
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... Lyndon made the first journey in her lifetime of restless journeys as a baby in her mother's arms . They travelled by train from Maryborough to Sydney where Lyndon first encountered her Great Aunt Ellie . In the next decade Ellie was to ...
... Lyndon made the first journey in her lifetime of restless journeys as a baby in her mother's arms . They travelled by train from Maryborough to Sydney where Lyndon first encountered her Great Aunt Ellie . In the next decade Ellie was to ...
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... Lyndon later wrote , then the Goffs planted too many seeds of doubt and mystery . They left clues , but they were too simple , too rudimentary to be of much help . Lyndon fell back on her parents ' proverbs , rules , and random lines ...
... Lyndon later wrote , then the Goffs planted too many seeds of doubt and mystery . They left clues , but they were too simple , too rudimentary to be of much help . Lyndon fell back on her parents ' proverbs , rules , and random lines ...
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... Lyndon's first experience of compassion came one hot Sunday afternoon . The blinds were half down , shading the bed- room where Margaret read aloud the story of the crucifixion from Peep of Day , a collection of Bible stories . Lyndon ...
... Lyndon's first experience of compassion came one hot Sunday afternoon . The blinds were half down , shading the bed- room where Margaret read aloud the story of the crucifixion from Peep of Day , a collection of Bible stories . Lyndon ...
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The moment between day and dark | 2 |
Ellie and Allora | 22 |
Old England in Australia | 40 |
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