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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... Miss Lark , the Banks's arrogant yet romantic neighbour . Miss Andrew and Miss Lark - two fictional women of a certain age , neither bur- dened by husbands - represented the two sides of Aunt Ellie's character , bossy and benign . Like ...
... Miss Lark , the Banks's arrogant yet romantic neighbour . Miss Andrew and Miss Lark - two fictional women of a certain age , neither bur- dened by husbands - represented the two sides of Aunt Ellie's character , bossy and benign . Like ...
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... Miss Travers and Miss Burnand , as she called them . Ever so happy , they seemed , and Miss Tra- vers so pretty with her curly hair and lipstick and smart looking slacks . Doris had a long list of duties . She started at 9 a.m. First ...
... Miss Travers and Miss Burnand , as she called them . Ever so happy , they seemed , and Miss Tra- vers so pretty with her curly hair and lipstick and smart looking slacks . Doris had a long list of duties . She started at 9 a.m. First ...
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... miss him , Hone wrote , but felt as if the world was different since he had gone.3 Hone was now in Enniskerry in the ... miss me ! ' never realising how much he was going to miss her . The house was ' so empty without C ' , she 214 THE ...
... miss him , Hone wrote , but felt as if the world was different since he had gone.3 Hone was now in Enniskerry in the ... miss me ! ' never realising how much he was going to miss her . The house was ' so empty without C ' , she 214 THE ...
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The moment between day and dark | 2 |
Ellie and Allora | 22 |
Old England in Australia | 40 |
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