#pamela lyndon travers

[the-invisible-queer]

GOOD MORNING!

Happy Monday!

Wrote about PL Travers on my blog

Check it out! Or don't. I can't tell you what to do.

[artisthomes]

Home of P. L. Travers on 50 Smith Street in Chelsea, London, England

[elegantzombielite]

"A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns."

P.L. (Pamela Lyndon) Travers, author, creator of the "Mary Poppins" series (9 August 1899-1996)

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Watching a documentary on ABC tonight and this is the biggest thing I’ve taken away from it

[charlesandmartine]

Thursday 19th December 2024

At sunrise, it seemed unlikely that we would see much of it today. The skies were leaden and overcast, and although the temperatures at 6am were 23 degrees, with a strong breeze off the Pacific, it felt 10 degrees less than that. The tide was just coming in, and there was little movement of small boats as there were on previous days.

Our destination today was 250 km away at Hervey Bay, which is the departure town for Fraser Island, or K'gari, as is the preference now. We wanted to visit this island, and so a convenient stepping off place was necessary. As we drove, the day's weather gradually improved, and with the sun out, temperatures reached into the mid thirties. We chose a route that would take us firstly to Bundaberg. Now we were just a little put off this place, for all the wrong reasons. A little while ago, we were buying a six-pack of beer in a grog shop and were blinded by the array of options. Next to a pack of Great Northern Brewery output was a pack of Bundaberg. The bright yellow cans looked appealing and just a bit different. Different they certainly were, because as soon as the ring was pulled and a small draught decanted, we thought we had stout in the glass, not an IPA! Worse was to come because the taste test proved we had rum and coke, and not particularly nice rum and coke at that! Well, I persevered, and I still have one can of the stuff left that in Martine's clear opinion should be in the bin. So when it was clear we were to drive through the place that produced this horrible liquid, we figured we should just keep going, although as a town, it was actually quite presentable. Very close to Bundaberg, by the sea, was what sounded a nice little place to stop for a coffee; Burnett Heads, and after all, it was only 5 miles up the road. It wasn't long before we could see this was a big mistake. The countryside was flat, uninteresting, windy, and like being on the fens on a bad day. Coupled with a complete lack of cafés. Even the marina yielded no such supping places. We had to settle for a very odd bakery, where a young girl who looked like she ought to be in school, said in a rather assertive, authoritative manner when she had taken the order for 2 coffees, "I need you to stand over there" and pointing! I complied immediately, of course. What do they teach them in school these days? The rest of the intake of customers looked extremely shifty and weird. We were so off the beaten track that I was checking to see if they had 6 fingers. A notice we read outside referred to the community as 'isolated'. The only endearing feature was the old lighthouse. Repositioned to its present spot in 1972 when an automated replacement was constructed.

Our next port of call totally restored our confidence in our ability to find an interesting and comly town. We had heard about Maryborough, of course, and were very keen to visit. Maryborough is the birthplace of Helen Lyndon Goff, better known as PL Travers, author of Mary Poppins. Her full pseudonym, chosen as her stage name, was Pamela Lyndon Travers. Travers was her father's name, and Pamela ensured a good cadence. The museum set up to house memorabilia and tell the story is in the old Bank building that, in an upstairs room in 1899, she was actually born, while her father worked as bank manager downstairs in what was the Australian Stock Bank. This was a charming exhibition of her upbringing, background, and her works. She moved to England in 1923 at the age of 24, which is where she lived most of her life, dying in Chelsea in 1996. Her father had a problem with alcohol, his work suffered, and after demotion to clerk, and a few bank moves to poorer locations, eventually he caught pneumonia and died 3 days later. The family was then destitute, and Helen had to move in with a wealthy aunt. Tough time. It might, therefore be conjecture, but is it perhaps possible to see a bit of background to the plot for the Banks', later in the story? Perhaps. Interestingly, Travers' chosen illustrator for her books was Mary Shepard, who was the daughter of EH Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows!

Driving out through Maryborough, we were delighted with the place. Charming stone built buildings in the colonial style, old Hotel/ Bars on street corners, and possibly the nicest tribute to the work of the town's most successful daughter, the pedestrian lights show a red and a green Mary Poppins complete with umbrella.

Our place for the next 4 nights is in a house called The Little Green Cottage. 100 metres from the beach, it will be ideal for us before flying back to Sydney.

[soph-grayce]

On this day in 1964, Walt Disney’s movie adaptation of Pamela Lyndon Travers’ book Mary Poppins. Although a praised classic among many, this movie was almost not made at all. Travers was extremely hesitant to give Disney the rights to make the movie, as she feared he would make a mockery of her books. However, she eventually came around on the grounds that she would have script approval power. The film stared Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) and Dick Van Dyke (Bert) with music written by Robert and Richard Sherman. The songs became a hit with adults and kids alike and even Disney himself! His favorite song was “Feed the Birds” and often would request the Sherman brothers play it for him. This film also pushed boundaries in the artistic world with the scenes of animation side by side with live action actors. It also slightly dived into feminists ideas with Winnifred Banks being a strong advocate for women’s voting rights. This movie has been a favorite of mine for many years and the passion I have for it has been shared by so many others!

[canesenzafissadimora]

[...] Giacomo Leopardi scriveva: "Ho conosciuto intimamente una madre di famiglia che non solamente non compiangeva i genitori che perdevano i loro figli bambini, ma gl'invidiava intimamente e sinceramente, perché questi eran volati al Paradiso senza pericoli, e avevan liberato i genitori dall'incomodo di mantenerli".

Parlava di Adelaide Antici, sua madre.

Iréne Némirovski, scrittrice francese di origini ebraiche, morta ad Auschwitz, definita da Benedetta Tobagi "l'angelo vendicatore dei bambini defraudati della propria infanzia da madri terribili", crea nei suoi romanzi figure materne di sublime crudeltà, ispirandosi alla propria madre, Anna Margulis, che rispose "esistono case per bambine bisognose", rifiutandosi di aprire la porta alle due nipoti orfane.

La divina Joan Crawford infieriva con sadismo sui propri pargoli, come racconta la figlia Cristina in un libro intitolati Mammina cara; Maria Teresa d'Asburgo, imperatrice d'Austria, scriveva lettere vessatorie ai suoi sedici figli, a loro volta re e regine; Caterina de'Medici usava i discendenti come pedine per i suoi giochi di potere; Pamela Lyndon Travers, autrice di Mary Poppins, adottò un bambino e abbandonò a un destino sciagurato il fratello gemello.

E non è solo un problema di istinto materno carente, o di animosità nei confronti delle proprie creature. [...]

È la vita, è la natura umana che può essere spietata anche per una madre. La maternità pertanto non assolve nessuno, tantomeno chi si assume la responsabilità di un Paese intero.

Lasciamo in pace quindi le madri e le non madri. E cerchiamo di essere semplicemente persone per bene.

Claudia de Lillo - Se la madre non è buona.

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➻ A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens),

➻ Aladdin AU,

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➻ Rapunzel (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

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➻ Servant AU,

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➻ The 10th Kingdom (miniseries, Simon Moore, David Carson & Herbert Wise),

➻ The Bremen Town Musicians (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

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➻ The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

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➻ The Girl Without Hands/The helpless Maiden/The Armless Maiden (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

➻ The Goose Girl (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

➻ The Goose-Girl at the Well (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

➻ The Ice-Maiden (fairy tale, Brothers Grimm),

➻ The Last Unicorn (Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass & Peter S. Beagle),

➻ The Little Mermaid (fairy tale, Hans Christian Andersen),

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➻ The Maze Runner (James Dashner),

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ISBN: 978-618-01-3778-1 Συγγραφέας: Pamela Lyndon Travers Εκδότης: Ψυχογιός Σειρά: Μαίρη Πόπινς Ημ/νία έκδοσης: 14 Δεκ 2020 Σελίδες: 192 Μεταφραστής: ΠΙΠΙΝΗ ΑΡΓΥΡΩ Εικονογράφος: Child Lauren Σχήμα: 19 x 24.5 cm Βάρος: 0.780 kgr Βιβλιοδεσία: ΣΚΛΗΡΟΔΕΤΟ

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ISBN: 978-618-01-3778-1 Συγγραφέας: Pamela Lyndon Travers Εκδότης: Ψυχογιός Σειρά: Μαίρη Πόπινς Ημ/νία έκδοσης: 14 Δεκ 2020 Σελίδες: 192 Μεταφραστής: ΠΙΠΙΝΗ ΑΡΓΥΡΩ Εικονογράφος: Child Lauren Σχήμα: 19 x 24.5 cm Βάρος: 0.780 kgr Βιβλιοδεσία: ΣΚΛΗΡΟΔΕΤΟ

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Mary Poppins (1964, Robert Stevenson)

05/02/2024

Mary Poppins is a 1964 mixed media film (live action and animation) directed by Robert Stevenson, based on the series of novels of the same name written by Pamela Lyndon Travers.

London, 1906. Bert, a man of all trades, is among other things a street orchestra man.

Doubting that his careless wife and suffragette, Winifred will be able to find an efficient nanny for the umpteenth time, George has an advert published in the Times with the requirements that a governess should have in his opinion.

A strong wind that suddenly rose sweeps away all the aspiring workers: recalled by the bizarre letter from the two little ones, which reached her through the fireplace, the "supernanny" Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every respect, comes down from the sky with an umbrella.

A pyrotechnic attack by Admiral Boom, who mistakes the chimney sweeps for Hottentots, forces the group to continue the celebration in the living room of the Banks house, involving Winifred and the maids in the dancing.

The protagonist of the film is Mary Poppins - a magical nanny who arrives at number 17 of Cherry Tree Lane flying down from the sky during a day with the wind blowing from the East, attached to a black umbrella with a handle in the shape of a talking parrot's head - who takes care of the siblings Jane and Michael Banks in the family's most difficult moment.

When George Banks is fired, instead of being destroyed, he is cheerful and sings with his family; while her mother, Winnifred Banks, is a full-time suffragette, who participated in many demonstrations on women's emancipation.

In 1934, P. L. Travers, pseudonym of the Australian Helen Lyndon Goff, published the novel Mary Poppins, which tells the story of the magical flying nanny who comes down from the sky to help the Banks family. The sequel was published in 1935, followed by six more novels, published until 1988.

According to the story told in Saving Mr. Banks and the special features of the 2004 special edition DVD, Walt Disney's daughter Diane fell in love with the books of the series and made her father promise to produce a film based on her beloved books. The Sherman brothers composed the soundtrack and helped write the script, suggesting moving the events from the 1930s to the Edwardian era.

Many parts of the correspondence between Disney and Travers are part of the collection in the Library of New South Wales, Australia.

Their relationship during the production of Mary Poppins is told in a dramatic version in the film Saving Mr. Banks, produced by Walt Disney Pictures in 2013.

The film was shot entirely at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Some hand-made drawings of the discarded scenarios were used for the overture of the film's sequel.

The penguins who serve tea to Mary Poppins and Bert were voiced, in the original version, by James MacDonald, who also took care of the sound effects of the film.

David Tomlinson acted with a fake mustache at Walt Disney's request.

The other actresses considered for the part of Mary Poppins were Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury.

[mrmossmichael]

It's been 10 years passed since Disney's Saving Mr. Banks came out in December-13-2013 and let me tell ya: it was pretty good and it's based on the true story of both Pamela Lyndon Travers and Walt Disney's long process in making Mary Poppins 1964 movie. Emma Thompson is portrayed as Pamela Lyndon Travers and Tom Hanks is portrayed as Walt Disney in the movie version. 

[conformi]

Rob Marshall, Mary Poppins Returns, 2018 VS Chris Burden, Urban Light, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los  Angeles | USA, 2008

[the-eyes-of-love-mary-poppins]

Here is a little piece form the first ever Mary Poppins story P. L. Travers ever published. Story from 1926 ☂️

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They were supposed to be in love....my shipper heart 😫❤.

(klick for better quality.)

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Pamela L. Travers // Mary Poppins Comes Back

[filmtelefilmitaly]

“Vento dall'est, la nebbia è là, qualcosa di strano tra poco accadrà. Troppo difficile capire cos'è, ma penso che un ospite arrivi per me.”

“Saving Mr. Banks”