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unusual facts about P.L. Travers



Boyd Dunlop Morehead

His sister Margaret Goff née Morehead was the mother of Helen Lyndon Goff, who achieved fame as P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.

Graham Shepard

Shepard's younger sister, Mary Shepard, also became an illustrator, and is most well known for her illustrations of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins.

I Love to Laugh

The scene is based on the chapter "Laughing Gas" in the book Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers.

Jesus in the Talmud

Herford, R. Travers, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, London: Williams & Norgate, 1903 (reprint New York, KTAV, 1975)

Kelly Marcel

Marcel is credited for the screenplay of the 2013 drama film Saving Mr. Banks, "a behind-the-scenes look at how the popular Disney film "Mary Poppins" came to be," starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers.

Michael R. Fuljenz

Fuljenz has collaborated with other leading numismatists such as Q. David Bowers, Walter Breen, and Scott A. Travers in detailing the history and varieties of all U.S. coins, from colonial times to today.

William R. Travers

A well-known cosmopolite and high liver, Travers was a member of 27 private clubs, according to Cleveland Amory in his book Who Killed Society?


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