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Mary Poppins, She Wrote; The Life of P.L. Travers
by Lawson, Valerie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0743298160
- ISBN 13
- 9780743298162
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 0743298160 . 401 p. 23 cm. Sound and square binding in illustrated paper-covered boards. Minor wear to the corners tips and spine ends. Tiny smudge on top edge of text block. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with slight toning. The dust jacket has a little edge and corner wear and a crease to the rear flap. Lightly shelf rubbed. A biography of Pamela Lynden (P.L. Travers) the Australian born British woman who wrote the beloved children's story about the nanny Mary Poppins and her time with the Banks family. Includes two sections of black and white photographs. .
Synopsis
The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. She flew into the lives of the unsuspecting Banks family in a children's book that was instantly hailed as a classic, then became a household name when Julie Andrews stepped into the starring role in Walt Disney's hugely successful and equally classic film. Now she is a Broadway sensation all over again. But the story of Mary Poppins's creator, as this first biography reveals, is just as unexpected and remarkable. The fabulous English nanny was conceived by an Australian, Pamela Lyndon Travers, who in 1924 came to London from Sydney as a journalist. She became involved with theosophy and traveled in the literary circles of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Most famously, she clashed with "the great convincer" Walt Disney over the adaptation of the Mary Poppins books into film. Travers, whom Disney accused of vanity for "thinking you [Travers] know more about Mary Poppins than I do," was as tart and opinionated as Julie Andrews's big-screen Mary Poppins was cheery and porcelain beautiful. "You've got the nose for it," Travers candidly assessed the star. Yet it was a love of mysticism and magic that shaped P. L. Travers's life as well as the character of Mary Poppins. The clipped, strict and ultimately mysterious nanny was the conception of someone who remained thoroughly inscrutable and enigmatic to the end of her ninety-six years. "Who is P. L. Travers?" the American press inquired of "this unknown Englishwoman" whose creation resulting in Hollywood gold had won her international fame. Valerie Lawson's illuminating biography, Mary Poppins, She Wrote , provides the first and only glimpse into the mind of a writer who fervently believed that "Everyday life is the miracle."
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6848
- Title
- Mary Poppins, She Wrote; The Life of P.L. Travers
- Author
- Lawson, Valerie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0743298160
- ISBN 13
- 9780743298162
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- 0743298160
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
- Size
- 2 1/8\" x 3 1/4\"
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Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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