Mary Poppins - The Complete Collection (Includes all six stories in one volume)

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As early as 1926, Travers published a short story, "Mary Poppins and the Match Man", which introduced the nanny character of Mary Poppins and Bert the street artist. [31] [32] Published in London in 1934, Mary Poppins, the children's book, was Travers's first literary success. Seven sequels followed, the last in 1988, when Travers was 89. [33] Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt and set aside. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter and sugar till well combined. Add the egg yolk and beat harder. Add the melted chocolate and ground nuts and mix until just combined. Stir the vanilla into the milk. Add some of the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture. Pour in some of the milk mixture, a little more flour and then some more milk, till both have been used up. Beat very thoroughly. A recipe for chocolate Zodiac Cake “decorated with silver stars” stood out above the rest. It produces a simple, thin, nutty cake—a short single layer, with delicate slices just right for serving with tea. I used hazelnuts in the batter, however other nuts can be substituted. The cake was a little on the dry side, so I topped it with a chocolate cream cheese frosting which improved it immensely—and of course, I decorated it with silver stars, just as Mary Poppins would do! In 1964, Mary Poppins was produced into a Disney film. In 2013, the film Saving Mr. Banksstarring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks was created to tell the story of the making of Mary Poppins and the fraught relationship between Travers and Walt Disney. Here’s an excerpt from a Smithsonian Magazine article on how this “based on a true story” might have been slightly sugar-coated: The placement of the feet, which Shepard described as portraying the “firm implacable stance which seemed to indicate Mary Poppins herself”, was inseparably associated with her creation of Mary Poppins’ image. I’ll stay till the wind changes

Neleus: A marble statue of the Greek mythological character Neleus. He is brought to life by Mary Poppins, and he reveals he longs to be reunited with his father, Poseidon. He appears in the stage musical during the " Jolly Holiday" sequence. Rochlin, Margy (2014-01-03). "Not Quite All Spoonfuls of Sugar: Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson Discuss Saving Mr. Banks". The New York Times . Retrieved 2014-01-05. Still, Saving Mr. Banksis an entertaining film, though it’s been said that in real life, Travers was even more of a pill than the portrayal by Emma Thompson. Mary Poppins and other outcasts". Editorial. Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor's View (Midwesterned.). Boston, MA. 24 October 1980. p.24 . Retrieved 3 December 2018– via NewsBank. Her mother was an Australian and her father was a man of Irish descent. Her father, Travers Robert Goff was a bank manager, who was unsuccessful in his job as he was a heavy drinker. Subsequently, he was demoted to the job of a blank clerk. He died when Travers was 7 years old. After her father’s death, she went to Bowral in New South Wales, along with her family, who were helped by her great aunt. The great aunt was her inspiration for the book Aunt Sass. Travers was called Lyndon in her childhood. During the period of World War I, she boarded at a school in Ashfield (Sydney) named Normanhurst Girls School.The book occupies a darker moral universe, one in which an alternative, more definitive ending is alluded to. Poppins is always looking in mirrors because she feels only tenuously connected to the physical world. (One sees why Sylvia Plath liked these books; TS Eliot, too.) What’s more, she has a cousin who is a snake and who, on the night of her birthday, gives her his shed skin and speculates that to eat and be eaten amount to the same thing when we are, “as one, moving to the same end”. It’s an extraordinary piece of paganism for a children’s book, prefiguring the end, when Poppins disappears with a “wild cry”, never to return. You don’t get that in Lassie Come Home. Desert Island Discs: P L Travers. BBC Radio 4. 1977-05-23. Event occurs at 17:02 . Retrieved 2020-03-01. She was born on 9 August 1899. Her real name was Helen Lyndon Goff. She was born in Australia, but she later immigrated to England and lived her adult life mostly in England. Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE ( / ˈ t r æ v ər s/; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. [2] She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, [3] which feature the eponymous magical nanny. George Banks is Mary Poppins employer and lives at seventeen Cherry Tree Lane with his wife and kids and works at the Bank in London. He is rarely home but has a gruffly love for his family. He is too much occupied with his work since he has a senior job as portrayed by the movie, that he rarely has time for his family. He however changes this attitude after a friend, Bert, cautions him that he is missing out on his children’s life and might never get the chance to see their childhood. He had a bad experience with a rough nanny while growing up and this caution by a friend completely changes him in to a dad every child would wish for. This is clearly shown when he repairs his child’s kite and even takes the kids out to play.

She had a vivid imagination from childhood on, and was inspired by her love of reading, favoring fairy tales and myths.

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Rainey, Sarah (2013-11-29). "Saving Mr Banks: The true story of PL Travers". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12 . Retrieved 2015-05-14.