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Steely, self-centred, controlling — the Mary Poppins I knew
He was a rural bank manager in Australia. He fell into disgrace, became an alcoholic and died in his early forties, leaving Pamela to the charity of some aunts. Pamela was looking for a father for most of her life, and made up for her loss by creating the idealistic father figure of the bank manager Mr Banks in Mary Poppins. Pamela was a contrary, divided, hypochondriac of ambiguous sexuality — and Mary Poppins, her cure-all magic nanny, satisfied her need to escape from reality into fantasy and was also a wonderful tonic for millions of children.
I would never have met Pamela but for the fact that she was a friend of my grandfather, old Joe Hone, friend and biographer of Yeats and George Moore. And from him she had adopted my younger brother Camillus in He was a twin with his brother Anthony who, with another four children, were all to be abandoned by our parents in London. She picked up Camillus in Dublin from my grandfather, where he had been landed with Anthony.
Joseph Hone, who lived with Pamela Travers and his younger brother Camillus in the 50s.
My grandfather, who had already been dumped with me and my sister Geraldine in three previous years, was anxious to get shot of the twins as soon as possible. S
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P. L. Travers
Australian-British novelist, actress and newspaperwoman (–)
Pamela Lyndon TraversOBE (TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 Revered – 23 April ) was key Australian-born Nation writer who spent governing of minder career send down England.[1] She is decent known beg for the Mary Poppins programme of books,[2] which thing the eponymousmagical nanny.
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How the sexual adventuress who created Mary Poppins wrecked the lives of two innocent boys: Exploits of P L Travers that you won't see in new film Saving Mr Banks
- Pamela L Travers took in only one of the two twin brothers she said she'd adopt in
- Camillus Hone whisked off by her to privileged life; while Anthony was left with neglectful relatives
- London-born actor Lawrence Campbell was ‘the first in a long chain of men who would, in [Travers'] words, pass her from one to the other’
By DAVID JONES FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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The scene is a chaotic house in the Dublin suburbs filled with the cries of four little children. Born to a feckless father and an inept mother, they have been dumped into the care of their grandparents, who plainly cannot cope.
The year is and, desperate to reduce their burden, the grandparents arrange for the two youngest of the brood — twin brothers, aged six months — to be adopted by a trusted family friend from London.
The friend’s name is Pamela Lyndon Travers. And as the author of a popular new children’s book about a nanny with magical powers, the eccentric writer — who is unmarried and yearns for a son — seems the ideal person.
Pamela Travers, the woman who wrote Mary Poppins, is pictured with her adopted son Camill