The Real Life Mary Poppins: The Life and Times of P.L. Travers
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Publisher Description
Among twentieth century authors, P. L. Travers was by far the most productive and famous to hail from the British colony of Australia. After a brief and modestly successful acting career, she moved to London and pursued her own brand of journalism. She was a well-regarded drama critic and travel author, and she became friends with many influential writers and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Eventually, she found her greatest voice in the form of Mary Poppins, the mysterious and powerful Edwardian nanny. Thirty years after the first Poppins adventure is published, Walt Disney produced a live-action movie version, which has ingrained itself forever in the popular imagination.
This biography traces Travers from her youth, her early career in acting and writing, the making of Mary Poppins, and more.
LifeCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. With each book, a lesser known or sometimes forgotten life is recapped.
Customer Reviews
Terrible Writing
Although this book covered the facts I wanted about P.L. Travers, it was very poorly written. I found it confusing and hard to read in parts.
Very poorly written
The facts of PL Travers' life may be there (although Malvolio is a character in Twelfth Night, not Richard III--makes me wonder what else is askew), but the real standout in this short, inexpensive is the lackluster, barely adequate writing and annoying lack of effective copy editing. Especially noteworthy is the confusion in tenses--the writer uses present tense (wildly inappropriate for any biography, in this reviewer's opinion) sometimes but not always.