![]() ![]() ![]() She lived there for 10 years, although boarded at Sydney's Normanhurst Girls School during World War I. Her father, Travers Goff, was an unsuccessful bank manager and heavy drinker who died when she was 7.Ĭalled Lyndon as a child, Travers moved with her mother and sisters to New South Wales after her father's death, where they were supported by a great aunt (the inspiration for her book Aunt Sass). Her mother, Margaret Agnes Morehead, was the sister of the Premier of Queensland. ![]() Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff on August 9, 1899, in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. The Disney film Mary Poppins made the notoriously private and prickly Travers immensely wealthy, but also unhappy. The Mary Poppins tales sprang from Travers entertaining young visitors, combined with a love of mythology. Travers' rich fantasy life propelled her to write stories and poems at an early age, and after a brief stint in the theater, she moved to London, England, to pursue a literary life, hobnobbing with Irish poets such as William Butler Yeats. ![]()
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