Mairet, Philip, 171, 221
Majolier, Yvonne, 166
Malouf, David, 332
Mansfield, Katherine, 135–36, 233
Margaret, Princess, 278
Marlow, George, 58, 64
Marlow’s Grand Shakespearean Company, 64–67
Marshall Fields (store), 170
Marshall, Prof. Peter, 302, 307
Martin, Ruth, 278
Mary Poppins (books). See Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT). Published Works. Books
Mary Poppins Comes Back (movie), 350–51
Mary Poppins (movie), 101, 146, 242–55, 270–74
casting, 259–64
filming, 266–67
music, 263
Oscars, 280
reviews, 275–76, 278–79
Royal European premiere, 278
sequel, 276–77, 350–51
U.S. premiere, 270–74
Mary Poppins (musical), 347–51, 356, 360
Mary Poppins and Myth (Bergsten), 155, 334
Mary Poppins (television series), 348–49
Maryborough, Queensland, 16–17, 23, 28–29
Maunsell and Company, 189
Mayers, Bernard Courtenay, 226, 324, 353, 355, 357
Mayfield, England, 188, 192–94, 208, 218–19
Mee, Arthur, 40–41
Miller, Jonathan, 348
Mills, Nancy, 346–47
Milne, A. A., 156–57, 162, 180
Mitchell Library, Sydney, 326, 341–42, 349–50
Moore, Henry, 337
Morehead, Annabella (née Ranken) (PLT’s great aunt), 19
Morehead, Boyd (PLT’s great uncle), 18–19, 20, 21–23, 47, 265
Morehead, Helen Christina (PLT’s great aunt) (known as Ellie)
Aunt Sass as story of, 200
birth, 18–19
cares for Margaret, 21
death, 180
first meets PLT, 24
looks after PLT, 30–34
matriarch of family, 19, 21, 32–34
model for Mary Poppins, 20, 21, 32, 149
model for Miss Brown Potter, 315–16
takes in Margaret’s family, 47–48
trip to England, 179–80
will, 34, 180
Morehead, Helen (née Dunlop) (PLT’s great grandmother), 18–19, 34
Morehead, Jane Katherine (PLT’s great aunt), 18–19, 33, 149, 180
Morehead, Margaret. See Goff, Margaret (née Morehead) (PLT’s mother)
Morehead, Maria (née Jacobs) (PLT’s grandmother), 19–20
Morehead, Robert Archibald Alison (PLT’s great grandfather), 18–21
Morehead, Robert Charles (PLT’s grandfather), 18–20
Morey, Dr. Dennison, 280
Moriarty, Barbara (née Goff) (PLT’s sister), 29, 55, 99, 268, 336
Morton, Frank, 72–74, 79, 85, 87, 94, 361
Motif Index of Folk Literature (Thompson), 293
Munro, Hector, 170, 171, 172, 174–75, 230
Murphy, Francis, 308
My Fair Lady (film), 260, 272, 274, 275, 280
Navajo Indians, 210–14
Nesbit, E., 156–57, 296, 334
New Age (magazine), 131–32
New English Weekly, 130, 135–37, 171, 180, 181, 188, 189, 196, 200, 218, 219, 221–22, 224, 234
New Mexico, 198, 209–10, 213–17
The New Triad (magazine), 117, 155
New York, 198, 204–6, 217–18, 255, 323, 333
New York Public Library, 312–13
The New York Times, 202, 277, 289, 309–10, 311, 322, 323, 355–56, 358
Newquist, Roy, 277
Normanhurst Private Girls School, 56–65
Nott, Adam, 355
Nott, Rosemary, 186, 194, 198, 222, 231, 234, 354
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 185, 215
O’Callaghan, Iris, 167, 184
O’Connor, Frank, 176
Oettinger, Tony, 291–92, 293, 298
O’Faolain, Sean, 87, 125–26
Office of War Information, United States, 201–2
Orage, Alfred Richard, 130–31, 132, 135–37, 139, 163, 176, 183, 215, 361
Orage, Jessie
AE’s death, 174
friendship with PLT, 171–72, 182–84, 186–88, 192, 194, 198, 204, 209–10, 213, 215, 222
meets A. R. Orage, 136
meets Gurdjieff, 185
on New English Weekly board, 171, 221, 222
returns to Britain, 217, 221
travels in USA, 194, 198, 204, 209–10
O’Sullivan, Sean, 175
Ouspensky, Piotr Damien, 131–33, 313, 336, 337, 361
Owen, Reginald, 263
Paine, Palmer, 299
Parabola (magazine), 330–32, 335, 344, 352, 359
Park Keeper (Frederick Smith), 151, 238, 342–43
A Pattern of Islands (Grimble), 352–53
Peper, William, 275
Peter Pan (Barrie), 156, 157
Peter Pan (play), 118
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (Cott), 335
Pitter, Ruth, 137
Plath, Sylvia, 303
Plato, 118, 131
Plunkett, Sir Horace, 93, 94, 121, 126
poems. See Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT) Published Works: Poems
Poppins, Mary
character, 143–61, 236–37, 253–55
modeled on Aunt Ellie, 20, 21, 32, 149
origin, 13–14, 54, 72, 99, 100–101, 138–39, 157, 245, 297–98, 339–40
statue, 310–11
Porter, Kingsley and Lucy, 119–20, 125, 126, 129
Potter, Beatrix, 40, 157–58, 315
Potter, Miss Brown, 315–16
Powell, Dilys, 279
Pratt, Doris, 319
Pritchett, V. S., 302, 303
The Prophet (Gibran), 304
Pryse, James, 91, 122
Pugh, David, 356
Quaritch, Bernard, 341, 350
Queensland National Bank, 22–23
Quigley, Miss, 50–51, 160, 207, 208
racism in PLT’s books, 345–46
Radcliffe College, 290–302
Rainer, Luise, 319
Rajagopal, Desikacharya, 320
Ramayana, 294, 316–17
Raphael, Frederick, 348
Redgrave, Vanessa, 348
Reynal, Eugene, 162, 178, 183, 199, 200, 206, 236
Reynal & Hitchcock (publisher), 162, 199, 208, 236
Rice, Tim, 348, 349
Ritchie, Mrs., 224–25, 234
Robinson, David, 279
Roddy, Joseph, 308–9
Roethke, Theodore, 360–61
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 89, 93, 169, 333
Rope (lesbian group), 182–83
Rose, William, 19, 20
Rosenbaum, Belle, 279–80
roses, named after PLT, 280, 282, 322
Rothermere, Lady, 132, 134–35
Rubina, Nellie, 50–51, 160
Rumsey, Mary, 121, 169
Russell, Brian, 175
Russell, Diarmuid, 120, 122, 162, 170, 176, 178, 200, 270, 301
Russell, George William (known as AE)
death, 168–76, 183
editor of Irish Statesman, 87, 94
friendship with Leah Rose Bernstein, 114–15
friendship with Simone Tery, 88, 114–15
friendship with W. B. Yeats, 90, 93, 172, 174, 176
health, 125, 168–76
holidays in Donegal, 104–108
influence on PLT, 87–88, 95–98, 102, 104, 106–109, 110, 112, 125, 129–30, 137–39, 176–78, 316, 336, 361
as intellectual, 88–89, 93
interest in American Indians, 169
interest in Ireland, 126, 128
interest in Irish folklore, 91–92
interest in occult and spiritualism, 90–92, 98, 104, 106, 107, 169
lecture tours, 108–109, 114, 121–22, 168–70
marriage, 92
PLT testimonial from, 119
PLT’s dreams of, 335
poems, 39
pseudonym AE, 90
salons, 93, 112–14, 126
Russell, Violet, 92, 105, 106, 107, 113–14, 125
Russia, PLT’s travels to, 126–28
Rutherford, Margaret, 262
Salzmann, Jeanne de, 226, 229, 230, 232
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 204, 209–10, 213, 215
Sasaki, Ruth, 260
Sayers, Francis Clarke, 276
Scaravelli, Vanda, 319
Schaffer, Peter, 348
Scripps College, 321–23
The Secret Garden (Hodgson Burnett), 156–57
Self, Ed, 348
Shakespeare, William, 286, 354, 359
Shakespearean Quarterly, 70, 76
Shaw, Fiona, 356
Shaw, George Bernard, 94, 131, 181
Shawn, Wally, 348, 349
Shepard, Ernest, 162
Shepard, Mary, 160, 162–64, 208, 238, 240, 246, 256–58, 269, 343–44, 357
Sherman, Richard R., 247, 251, 254, 255, 260, 264, 272
Sherman, Robert B., 247, 251, 254, 255, 260, 264, 272
Sherwood, Robert, 201
short stories. See Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT). Published Works: Short stories
Shulman, Max, 349
Sibley, Brian, 350
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 332
Sjostrand, Osten, 326
The Sleeping Beauty, 62–63, 294
Smith College, 290, 301–10
Smith College Quarterly, 306, 309
Smith, Maggie, 348
Solomon, Barbara, 290, 291, 295
Solomon (Camillus s friend), 205–6, 218
Sondheim, Stephen, 348
Songs of Innocence (Blake), 154–55, 360
Sophian (newspaper), 304
Springs of Wisdom (Gibran), 304
Stephens, A. G., 73, 78
Stephens, James, 87, 94, 98
Stern, Frieda Heidecke, 217
Sterne, Maurice, 214
Stevenson, Robert, 247, 264
Stewart, Janey, 105, 106, 108
Stoppard, Tom, 348
Storey, David, 348
Stravinsky, Igor, 319
Streep, Meryl, 356
Sufism, 335
Summerfield, Henry, 128–29
Symes, Olive, 240
Symons, W. T., 221
Taos, New Mexico, 169, 213–15
Taylor, Nora E., 297–98
television series of Mary Poppins, 236, 348–49
Tery, Simone, 88, 98, 106, 114–15, 175
Theosophical Society, 90–91, 92, 131, 318
Thomas, Dylan, 136–37
Thompson, Emma, 356
Thompson, Stith, 293
Times Literary Supplement, 328
Tolkien, J.R.R., 296, 304
Tomlinson, David, 263, 273, 278
Travers, Bruno Henry (PLT’s grandson), 353
Travers, Camillus (PLT’s son)
adoption, 191–92, 239–40, 313–14
beneficiary of PLT’s will, 355, 357
birth, 191
childhood, 193–94, 198, 199, 202–6, 211, 216–17, 218, 220, 233–34, 258–59
dedication of books, 200, 208, 259
drinking, 248, 314, 329, 333, 334, 347
employment, 240, 241
as father, 332, 334, 337
father of, 230
funeral plans for PLT, 354–55
marriage, 329–30, 347
meets twin brother, 239–40
at PLT’s death and funeral, 357–58
relationship with PLT, 240, 284, 313–14, 357–58
school, 220, 223–25, 233–34, 239, 240
travels to Canada and USA, 195–218
university, 240
Travers, Cicely Jane (PLT’s granddaughter), 337
Travers, Frances (Camillus’s wife), 329–30, 334, 337, 347, 355
Travers, Katherine Lyndon (PLT’s granddaughter), 334
Travers, Pamela Lyndon (PLT)
ACTING: ambition to become actress, 61–62;
dancing lessons, 61;
drama critic, 121;
joins Marlow’s Grand Shakespearean Co., 64–67, 68–69;
joins repertory company, 67–69;
pantomime, 62;
at school, 57–59
CAREER: actress, 64–69, 324;
Australian Gas Light Company, 59;
drama critic, 116–17, 121, 137, 180;
journalist, 70–71, 72–78, 84–85, 86–87, 100, 110–11, 112, 117, 180, 200, 331–32;
poet, 69–76, 79, 83, 87, 88, 96–97, 116, 117, 125, 137;
testimonial from George William Russell, 119;
writer in residence, 290–310, 321–22;
writing as solace, 330. See also PUBLISHED WORKS
CHILDHOOD: birth, 23–24;
church-going, 42–44;
fantasies, 26–27, 37–41, 50, 286–87;
reading, 28, 40–42, 56–57;
school, 45, 50, 56–59, 290;
writing, 44
DEATH: estate, 360;
fears her own death, 356;
funeral, 358–59;
lack of will to live, 330;
obituary, 15, 354–55, 358;
plans her funeral, 354;
PLT’s death, 357;
thoughts of her own death, 177, 286, 313, 329, 332; will, 355, 357
FAMILY LIFE: adopts a baby, 187–88, 189–92;
Camillus, 202–6, 220, 223–25, 233–34, 284, 313–14, 347, 356–58;
father, 13–17;
father’s death, 46–47, 53, 57, 159;
first meets Aunt Ellie, 24;
goes to relatives, 25, 30–34;
grandchildren, 334, 337, 347, 353;
grieves at mother’s death, 108;
manner with children, 298–99;
relationship with mother, 53–56;
relationship with parents, 26–28, 44–47
HEALTH: 116, 118, 125–26, 204, 213, 224, 225, 241, 324;
abdomen, 313;
anxiety, 122–23, 256–57, 301;
arthritis, 353;
bowels, 230, 234, 267–68;
lungs, 128, 137;
mumps, 218;
old age, 337, 339–40, 346, 353–57;
pleurisy, 120, 184;
pneumonia, 279;
suspected appendicitis, 120;
suspected tuberculosis, 20, 98, 102, 120, 122–23, 126;
tension, 186–87, 241
HOMES: Allora, Queensland, 35–38;
Ashfield, New South Wales, 59;
Bowral, New South Wales, 49–53, 56;
Dublin, 325, 328;
Ipswich, Queensland, 29;
London, 84, 98, 119, 121, 223, 257, 258;
Maryborough, Queensland, 23, 28–29;
New York, 198, 202, 204–6, 217–18, 239, 323, 328;
Pound Cottage, England, 121, 123–25, 126, 128, 129, 181–82, 208, 218–19, 224;
Sante Fe, New Mexico, 215–16;
Shawfield Street, London, 278, 300, 328, 329;
Woollahra, New South Wales, 47
HONORS: honorary doctorate degree, 334–35;
Officer of the British Empire, 333, 334
INCOME: Disney productions, 324–25;
Ireland, tax haven, 324–25;
Mary Poppins Comes Back (movie), 350–51;
Mary Poppins and the House Next Door, 353;
Mary Poppins movie, 243, 247;
royalties, 344–45;
sources, 180, 181, 224;
wealth, 340;
worries about, 18
INTERESTS: fairy tales, 28, 41–42, 145, 202–3, 207, 293–94, 297, 316–17, 331;
myths, 211–13, 304–6, 312, 331;
spiritual quest, 129–30, 313, 321, 327, 329, 332–33, 335, 356, 360–61;
stars, 38–39, 52, 53, 138, 152, 153, 159;
sun, 40, 301;
theosophy, 131
LECTURES AND READINGS: on Gurdjieff, 336–37;
New York, 333
, 334;
Smith College, 305–7
LITERARY, PERSONAL PAPERS AND MEMENTOS: donates mementos to New York Public Library, 313, 323–24;
offers papers to universities, 280, 313, 314, 341;
sells papers to Mitchell Library, Sydney, 326, 341–42, 349–50
MOVIES: consults on Mary Poppins, 248–55, 261–66, 272–73;
Mary Poppins Comes Back, 350–51;
premiere of Mary Poppins, 270–74;
rights to Mary Poppins, 243, 247;
views on Mary Poppins, 273–74, 276–80, 324
NAMES: as author, 162, 302;
birth name, 23;
honorary doctor, 334–35;
as journalist, 73, 95, 180;
pseudonym, 14, 102–3, 221;
stage name, 66
PERSONAL LIFE: birthplace, 302;
date of birth, 297, 302;
relationships with men, 183;
sexual relationship with Burnand, 117;
sexual relationship with Orage, 182, 183
PUBLISHED WORKS: Books: About the Sleeping Beauty, 313, 325, 326–27;
Ah Wong (1943), 200;
Aunt Sass (1941), 200;
The Fox at the Manger, 256, 258–59, 333, 334;
Friend Monkey, 314–18, 321, 322, 326;
I Go By Sea, I Go By Land (1941), 199–200;
Johnny Delaney, 217;
Mary Poppins (1934), 100, 139, 144, 151–54, 157, 162, 170, 270;
Mary Poppins (1964), 278;
Mary Poppins from A to Z, 256, 257–58, 260, 261–62, 304, 307, 314;
Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane, 43, 256, 257, 342–45;
Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935), 52, 100, 151–54, 160, 173, 178, 270;
Mary Poppins and the House Next Door, 351–53;
Mary Poppins Library, 261;
Mary Poppins Opens the Door (1944), 100, 152–53, 205–8;
Mary Poppins in the Park (1952), 37, 152, 164, 236–38;
Mary Poppins Story for Coloring (1968), 314;
Moscow Excursion (1934), 126–28;
racist references, 345–46;
translations, 269–70, 301–2, 304, 307, 308, 314;
Two Pairs of Shoes (1980), 344;
A Way of Working (with Dorling), 331;
What the Bee Knows (1989), 353–54.
Essays: “A Brand for the Critic,” 121.
Poems: Bitter Sweet, 81;
“Christopher,” 96;
“The Coming,” 96;
“The Dark Fortnight,” 96;
dedicated to AE, 119;
“Friend (to HB),” 76;
“Ghosts of Two Sad Lovers,” 97;
“Glimpse,” 72;
“Happy Sleeping,” 96, 97;
“Keening,” 71;
“The Lost Loves,” 71;
“Mother Song,” 73–74;
“The Nurse’s Lullaby,” 72;
“O-o-h, Shocking!,” 75;
“Oh Break Her Heart,” 97;
“On Ben Bulben,” 102;
“On a Circle of Trees in the Christchurch Gardens,” 70;
“Raggedy-taggedy Gipsy Man,” 72;
“Song Before a Journey,” 79;
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