![]() Travers, author of the Mary Poppins stories. Camillus was a twin, but Travers only wanted to take one of the boys, and Travers kept the secret from her son for 17 years until his twin brother tracked him down. Her name was Helen Lyndon Goff, but she became known to the world as P.L. She never married, but at the age of 40 adopted a son whom she named Camillus Travers Hone. Walt Disney's daughter's had loved the novels, and Disney spent 20 years convincing Travers to sell him the rights for a movie, which was a huge hit when it was released in 1964, although Travers did not approve of the film adaption for multiple reasons. She found success with her Mary Poppins series, which was published beginning in 1934, and was followed by seven sequels, through 1988. Travers had first published as a teenager, and later worked briefly as a professional Shakespearian actress. Born Helen Goff Travers on August 9, 1906, in Queensland, Australia died at her London home on April 23, 1996. Travers, an abbreviation of her pseudonym Pamela Lyndon Travers, which she used in. ![]() She moved to England in 1924, and used the name P.L. 9, 1899 in the city of Maryborough, in Queensland, Australia, (not in England, as many assume). In 1933 she began writing her novel Mary Poppins, in which she signed the name P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins, was born Helen Lyndon Goff on Aug. Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australian on August 9, 1899, Goff took the name Pamela Lyndon Travers after she emigrated to England at the age of 25. ![]()
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