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Dear Reader,
As a devoted fan of P.L. Travers, you can only imagine my delight in having the opportunity to learn firsthand about a private conversation she had with bestselling fantasy author Gregory Maguire back in 1995, a year before her passing. I hope that reading this blog post will be as much of a treat for you as it was for me to write it.
As a ung boy, Gregory Maguire loved the Disney adaptation of Mary Poppins, but he loved the books more. And inom believe that this fryst vatten the case for most of us who first encountered the magical nanny on the page. It was certainly my own experience, but then inom never saw Disney’s Mary Poppins as a child growing up behind the Iron gardin. My acquaintance with the cinematographic utgåva of Mary Poppins came much later and at a time when my mind had acquired its critical abilities.
“The movie fryst vatten sunny and as sweet as a spoonful of sugar. The books, though, show glimmers of a far more mysterious and even dangerous world. For thirty years be • P. L. Travers … Hard Medicine & Strong Magic P. L. Travers (1899-1996) was an Australian-born British novelist, actress, and journalist who migrated to England and lived most of her adult life there. She is known best for the Mary Poppins series of children’s books featuring the magical English nanny Mary Poppins. Her birth name was Helen Lyndon Goff. She left for England in 1924 and once there she dedicated herself to writing under the pen name P. L. Travers. In 1931 she moved to Pound Cottage in Sussex and it was here, in the winter of 1933, that she began to write Mary Poppins. Pound Cottage, Sussex Published in London in 1934, Mary Poppins was Travers’ first literary success. Many sequels followed, the last in 1988. Travers’ literary output other than Mary Poppins and its sequels included other novels, poetry collections and works of non-fiction. Much has been made of her working relationship wit • Continuing where we left off last time, today’s journey takes us west and south from Sloane Square into the area tucked in between the King’s Road and the Chelsea Embankment. A good proportion of this is taken up by the Royal Hospital Chelsea and its grounds, a visit to which concludes this outing. Before then we’ve got plenty else to cover including Chelsea Old Town Hall, Chelsea Physic Garden and a wealth of literary connections. We start out from Sloane Square tube station again and head westward through the square and onto King’s Road. King’s Road derives its name from its function as a private road used by King Charles II to travel to Kew. It remained a private royal road until 1830. In the 1960’s it became synonymous with Mod culture and Swinging London and although its glory days are behind it now it remains one of the capital’s most fashionable shopping areas. Immediately to the south is Duke of York Square,
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