Travers, in The Sunday Times (London), issue 8575 (11 December 1988). There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.Quoted in Current Biography Yearbook 1996, p.As a writer, you can feel awfully imprisoned, because people, having had so much of one thing, want you always to go on doing more of the same. Mary Poppins is both a joy and a curse to me as a writer.You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life - however much we deny or ignore it - that for ever remains. 1.4 Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins (2007).It’s a fine mid-19th-century terrace house, still there, with no indication that the famous author once lived there.

In the late 1960s, she decided to move to Dublin, to the house at 69 Upper Leeson Street that had once been her father’s home. During her lifetime, Travers went to enormous trouble to ensure that people couldn’t access her personal history, the reason why she used initials in her name. Her private life always remained just that, totally closed off. Very private and even more prickly, she never married and although she had some relationships with men, her overwhelming preference was for women, and she had a long-time roommate, Madge Burnard, whom her friends considered to be Travers’s romantic partner. Travers was very unhappy with many aspects of the film production over which she and Disney had many strong disagreements. When it came out in 1934, it was an instant success and she wrote a further seven titles in the series, the last of which was published in 1988. In writing the book, Travers drew extensively on her own childhood experiences and fantasies, as well as her subsequent encounters with Irish mysticism. It evolved into her first book about Mary Poppins, the governess with magical powers, who had a parrot-head umbrella for transport, and an uncanny ability to organise tea parties on the ceiling. Her first published book, in 1934, related her Russian travel experiences, but that same year, while recovering from pleurisy at a remote cottage in Sussex, AE suggested that she should write a story about witches. Travers was also friendly with WB Yeats and other Irish literary figures these encounters enhanced her love of Irish mythology and storytelling.

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