Biography
In 2018, the film "Mary Poppins returns" to the cinema screens came out, filmed based on fantastic stories created by the Australian-British writer Pamela Trevers.
Not many know that before writing a book, a woman who was actually called Helen Lindon Gooff, played in the theater, and then began a journalist career and traveled polim, collecting material for articles. The remaining details of the biography of the author of the story about supermans are as mysterious as her works. A small period of life of the writer is reflected in the work of the director John Lee Hancock "Save Mr. Banks".
Childhood and youth
Pamela Travers, at birth with the name of Helen Lindon Goff, was born on August 9, 1899 in the Australian city of Maryborough, located on the territory of the former British colony. Father Travers Robert Hoff worked as a financial manager, and Mother Margaret Morceed accounted for a niece of a high-ranking local official who was the post of Prime Minister.
The first years of the life of the future writer passed in a large cozy house surrounded by loving parents, younger sisters and servants. But in 1905, the bank employee was lowered, and the family had to move to a smaller home.
Without coping with financial difficulties, the elder Hoff was addicted to alcohol and in 1907 he died from the seizure of epilepsy. After that, Margaret with the children settled in the east of Australia, in the house of aunt, who gladly engaged in the upbringing of the grandchildren and soon sent Lindon to an expensive private board in Eshfield.
The girl who has taught to read at 3 years old, did not immediately fit in a new educational institution. Bored in the lessons, she regularly received warnings from teachers for laziness and irresponsible attitude to subjects. As a result, the director of the boarding house allowed Lindi to independently attend the library and instructed it to draw up scenarios for school performances. From this point on, the future writer was fascinated by the theater and began to dream about the career of the actress.
When the time of final exams came, the family of the Hoff was on the verge of bankruptcy, and instead of going to the target goal, Lyndon had to get a job. The duties of the stenographer girl combined with classes in Sydney's ballet studio, and in his free time, local theaters constantly visited, not missing a single premiere.
Thanks to the skills obtained in the dance lessons, and the congenital talent of the young person was lucky to get into the troupe Allan Wilki, specializing in the production of Plays William Shakespeare. There, a beginner actress, ripping a relationship with his family because of his career, refused his own surname and took the scenic pseudonym Pamela Lindon Travers.
Judging by the preserved photo, in the youth Lindon was a beauty, partly, therefore in 1921, shortly after the debut, the young performer was instructed to play the main roles, one of which was the titanium in the classic performance of the play "Sleeping Night". At the same time, Pamela, who had several articles in the baggage printed by the Australian Newsletter "Bulletin", decided to engage in journalism and began writing poems and reviews for the local press.
Books
Forming your own letter of writing, Travers became a demanded by a journalist and began receiving orders from national newspapers and magazines. The artistic career gradually moved to the background, and the young woman decided to travel and gain impressions for future literary works.
In 1924, Pamela in the company of the girlfriend went to England, and then to Ireland, where for some reason began to hide his own nationality and origin. For several years, Travers worked as a correspondent of Australian publications on the continent and regularly sent enthusiastic articles about life in Europe to his homeland.
British readers got acquainted with the work of journalists thanks to publications in The Irish Statesman magazine, whose chief editor was George William Russell. Pamela became friends with the publisher and under the influence of his theosophical views began to write small works, in which the fantasy went beyond the limits of the human mind.
It was then that the first story called "Mary Poppins and the seller of matches", in which the wonderful nanny, having fallen from the sky, with the help of Magic raises the restless children of Mr. and Mrs. Banks. This story, printed by the Sun newspaper in November 1926, did not have much success, but the author liked the invented image of Mary Poppins, which she decided to write a whole series of fairy tales about a cute wizard with a cherry street.
The writing debut introduced the travers in the literary circles of Ireland, and soon her new acquaintance was the playwright and the occultist, the William Batler's Nobel Prize winner. The writer was always interested in the other world and did not listen to every word of the famous Irish poet. She expanded its own knowledge of Celtic mythology and read a huge number of books dedicated to Buddhism and Hindu.
Having enlisted with the support of Jate and other Irish writers, in 1932 Pamela decided to write a book about Soviet Russia and went on a trip to Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad.
During the trip, Pamela examined the sights and realized that she did not show it this Russian reality. Disappointed with this circumstance, the journalist published a series of satirical essays in New York under the name "Moscow Excursion" and thanks to the acute statements to the Soviet citizens acquired fame from American readers.
Returning to the West, Travers again turned to fairy tales, and in 1934 the English-language world met with the continuation of the history of Mary Poppins. The book containing the colorful illustration of Mary Shepard immediately became commercially successful and popular. However, the author believed that the audience did not fully felt the inner content of the work, taken by the genre of stories for children.
Continuing the traditions of Irish Teachers-theosophists and preaching the ideas of esoteric, which appeared after exploring mystic George Gurdjieff, Pamela tried to show that miracles are accessible and adults, it is only a little more attentive to look around.
This thought liked the owner of the world-famous film studio Walt Disney, in 1956 bought the right to the adaptation of her books from Pamela. The film, where the actress Julie Andrews played the role of Mary Poppins, became one of the best musicals of that time and received 13 nominations and 5 awards of the American Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
Next time, the nanny-magician appeared on the screens thanks to the efforts of the Soviet director Leonid Queinihidze, and in 2019, Mary Poppins Rob Marshal, Mary Poppins, was again nominated for Oscar in the categories "Best Music", "Best Suit" and "Best Work" Artist-director. "
Personal life
Pamela Travers almost did not give an interview, trying not to advertise the details of his personal life, and for this reason they were attributed to a lot of novels with men and women. There were rumors that for many years the writer was in a relationship with the daughter of English playwright Francis Bernard, Madge.
From 1927 to 1934, the girlfriends lived in the same apartment in London, and then moved to East Sussex and removed a secluded cottage with a straw roof and a garden.
At the same time, Pamela experienced Platonic feelings for a friend and mentor George Russell, and then some time met with the Irish playboat Francis McNamar. Neither one of these relationships led to marriage, and in adulthood Travers, all his life dreamed of her husband and children, decided to adopt. According to the advice of Astrologer, the writer shelted the grandson of the Dublin writer and the historian Joseph Gon.
Interesting is the fact that the adopted child had a twin brother, about which Pamela knew perfectly well. Taking only one boy, Travers took up the upbringing of Camillaus, hiding information about his true origin. Only at the age of 17, he accidentally found out that he had a native brother.
This happened after Anthony Gon came to London and in a state of intoxication broke into the master of the writer, demanding dating Camillaus. Pamela was kicked out of the Grubian, but could not hide this visit about the Son.
Having quarrel with the mother, the young man left the house and in one of the pubs finally reunited with the twin brother. This meeting has become fatal for family travers. After her, Camilles began to drink, flew out of the university and later began to lead an erratic lifestyle.
The heart of Pamela was broken, but thanks to meditations and following the covenants of teachers, she found the strength to restore and taught the literature in English and Irish universities to old age.
Death
At the end of the life of Pamela closed in himself and rarely communicated with journalists and fans. Before his death, she came up with a foster son, but his own state was taught grandchildren.
Thanks to meditative practices that helped to achieve harmony and mental balance, Travers lived to old age and in 96 years old quietly died in London on April 23, 1996. Doctors did not promulgate an accurate diagnosis, but it was assumed that the cause of death was the general refusal of the functions of the body.
Bibliography
- 1926 - "Mary Poppins and the seller of matches"
- 1934 - "Moscow Excursion"
- 1934 - "Mary Poppins"
- 1935 - "Mary Poppins returns"
- 1944 - "Mary Poppins opens the door"
- 1962 - "Mary Poppins from A to Z"
- 1962 - "FOX AT THE MANGER"
- 1971 - FRIEND MONKEY
- 1980 - "Two Pairs of Shoes"