Pamela L. Travers

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.

Table of contents

1 Books by P. L. Travers
2 Books on P. L. Travers
3 External Links

Books by 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)

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)

Books on P. L. Travers

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, 1999).

External Links

Gurdjieff 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 web site.
Finding aid to Papers of P. L. Travers in State Library of New South Wales (pdf file).