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P. L. Travers

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Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England. [1]

85 relations: Alcoholism, Alfred Richard Orage, Allan Wilkie, Allora, Queensland, Artist-in-residence, Australia, Australian nationality law, Bank teller, BBC Radio 4, Bowral, Boyd Dunlop Morehead, British nationality law, Broadway theatre, Cameron Mackintosh, Chelsea, London, Children's literature, Deptford, Desert Island Discs, East Sussex, Emma Thompson, F. C. Burnand, Fantasy literature, Film adaptation, Fourth Way, George Gurdjieff, George William Russell, HarperCollins, Hopi, Irish people, Irish Statesman, J. M. Barrie, Jane Heap, John Collier (sociologist), Joseph Maunsel Hone, Journalist, King's Road, List of poets, Llewelyn Davies boys, London, Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins (character), Mary Poppins (film), Mary Poppins (musical), Mary Poppins Opens the Door, Maryborough, Queensland, Mayfield and Five Ashes, Ministry of Information (United Kingdom), Musical film, Mythology, Navajo, ..., Normanhurst, New South Wales, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Order of the British Empire, Pen name, Peter and Wendy, Peter Llewelyn Davies, Peter Pan, Premier of Queensland, Puebloans, Punch (magazine), Queensland, Radcliffe College, Reynal & Hitchcock, Room and board, Saving Mr. Banks, Sherman Brothers, Smith College, State Library of New South Wales, Sussex, Sydney, The Bulletin, The bush, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Quarto Group, Titania, Tom Hanks, Twickenham, W. B. Yeats, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Pictures, West End theatre, Woollahra, New South Wales, Zen, 1977 New Year Honours. Expand index (35 more) »

Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Alfred Richard Orage

Alfred Richard Orage (22 January 1873 – 6 November 1934) was a British intellectual, now best known for editing the magazine The New Age.

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Allan Wilkie

Allan Wilkie CBE (9 February 1878 – 7 January 1970) was an English Shakespearean actor of Scottish descent noted for his career in Australia.

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Allora, Queensland

Allora is a town and locality in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, on the Darling Downs south-west of the state capital, Brisbane.

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Artist-in-residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities exist to invite artists, academicians, curators, to reside within the premises of an institution.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian nationality law

Australian nationality law determines who is and who is not an Australian citizen.

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Bank teller

A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank who deals directly with customers.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Bowral

Bowral is the largest town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, and the main business and entertainment precinct of the Wingecarribee Shire and Highlands.

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Boyd Dunlop Morehead

Boyd Dunlop Morehead (24 August 1843 – 30 October 1905) was a politician in Queensland, Australia.

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British nationality law

British nationality law is the law of the United Kingdom which concerns citizenship and other categories of British nationality.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Cameron Mackintosh

Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Deptford

Deptford is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Desert Island Discs

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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East Sussex

East Sussex is a county in South East England.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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F. C. Burnand

Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.

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Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is literature set in an imaginary universe, often but not always without any locations, events, or people from the real world.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Fourth Way

The Fourth Way is an approach to self-development described by George Gurdjieff which he developed over years of travel in the East (c. 1890 - 1912).

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George Gurdjieff

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (31 March 1866/ 14 January 1872/ 28 November 1877 – 29 October 1949) commonly known as G. I. Gurdjieff, was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), Armenia.

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George William Russell

George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935) who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (sometimes written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hopi

The Hopi are a Native American tribe, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Irish Statesman

The Irish Statesman was a weekly journal promoting the views of the Irish Dominion League.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Jane Heap

Jane Heap (November 1, 1883 – June 18, 1964) was an American publisher and a significant figure in the development and promotion of literary modernism.

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John Collier (sociologist)

John Collier (May 4, 1884 – May 8, 1968), a sociologist and writer, was an American social reformer and Native American advocate.

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Joseph Maunsel Hone

Joseph Maunsell Hone (1882 – 26 March 1959) was an Irish writer, literary historian, critic and biographer of W. B. Yeats.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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King's Road

King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the King's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London.

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List of poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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Llewelyn Davies boys

The Davies boys (the family only used the double surname Llewelyn Davies in formal contexts) were the sons of Arthur (1863–1907) and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (1866–1910).

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988.

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Mary Poppins (character)

Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers's Mary Poppins books and all of their adaptations.

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Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical-fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.

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Mary Poppins (musical)

Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by the Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (aka the Sherman Brothers, with additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a script by Julian Fellowes. The musical is based on the similarly titled Mary Poppins children's books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, and is a fusion of various elements from the two. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Walt Disney Theatrical and directed by Richard Eyre with co-direction from Matthew Bourne who also acted as co-choreographer with Stephen Mear, the original West End production opened in December 2004 and won two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre Choreography. A Broadway production with a near-identical creative team opened on November 16, 2006, with only minor changes from the West End version. It has received seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, and winning for Best Scenic Design. The original Broadway production closed on March 3, 2013, after 2,619 performances. Since then the amateur rights have become available for the musical through Musical Theatre International, and has been a popular choice for schools and community theatres to produce due to the popularity of the film and books.

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Mary Poppins Opens the Door

Mary Poppins Opens the Door is a British children's fantasy novel by the Australian-British writer P.L. Travers, the third book and last novel in the Mary Poppins series that features the magical English nanny Mary Poppins.

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Maryborough, Queensland

Maryborough is a city and a suburb in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Mayfield and Five Ashes

Mayfield and Five Ashes is a civil parish in the High Weald of East Sussex, England.

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Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

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Navajo

The Navajo (British English: Navaho, Diné or Naabeehó) are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Normanhurst, New South Wales

Normanhurst is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 23 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of Hornsby Shire.

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Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Pen name

A pen name (nom de plume, or literary double) is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their "real" name.

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Peter and Wendy

Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel.

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Peter Llewelyn Davies

Peter Llewelyn Davies MC (25 February 1897 – 5 April 1960) was the middle of five sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, one of the Llewelyn Davies boys befriended and later informally adopted by J. M. Barrie.

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.

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Premier of Queensland

The Premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Puebloans

The Puebloans or Pueblo peoples are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material and religious practices.

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Punch (magazine)

Punch; or, The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College.

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Reynal & Hitchcock

Reynal and Hitchcock was a publishing company in New York.

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Room and board

Room and board describes a situation where, in exchange for money, labor or other considerations, a person is provided with a place to live as well as meals on a comprehensive basis.

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Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr.

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Sherman Brothers

The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928).

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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State Library of New South Wales

The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large reference and research library open to the public.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Bulletin

The Bulletin was an Australian magazine first published in Sydney on 31 January 1880.

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The bush

"The bush" is a term used for rural, undeveloped land or country areas in certain countries.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)

The Daily Telegraph is an Australian daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News Limited, a division of News Corp Australia, formerly News Limited.

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The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.

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Titania

Titania is a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Tom Hanks

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Twickenham

Twickenham is a suburban area and town in Greater London, lying on the River Thames 10.2 miles west-southwest of the centre of London.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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Woollahra, New South Wales

Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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1977 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1977 are appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1977.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._L._Travers

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