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Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996), was an Australian-born British novelist, actress, and journalist who migrated to England and lived most of her adult life there.〔(PL Travers (British author) ). Encyclopedia Britannica.〕 She is known best for the Mary Poppins series of children's books featuring the magical English nanny Mary Poppins. Upon emigrating to England in 1924, Goff began to write under the pen name P. L. Travers. In 1933 she began writing the novel ''Mary Poppins'', first of the Poppins books. During World War II, while working for the British Ministry of Information, Travers traveled to New York City. At that time Walt Disney contacted her about selling to Disney Studios the rights for a film adaptation of ''Mary Poppins'', whose sequel ''Mary Poppins Comes Back'' was also in print. After years of contact, Walt Disney did obtain the rights and the Disney film ''Mary Poppins'' premièred in 1964. In 2004, a new, British musical theatre adaptation of the books and the film opened in the West End; it premièred on Broadway in 2006. For services to literature, Travers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1977. ==Early life== Helen Lyndon Goff, known within her family as Lyndon, was born 9 August 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Her mother Margaret Agnes Goff (née Morehead) was Australian and the niece of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890. Her father Travers Robert Goff was of Irish descent and born in Deptford, South London, England. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager due to his chronic alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk. The family lived in a large home with servants in Maryborough until Lyndon was five years old, when they relocated to Allora in 1905. Two years later, Travers Goff died at home of tuberculosis at the age of 43.〔 Following her father's death, Goff, along with her mother and sisters, moved to Bowral, New South Wales, in 1907, living there until 1917. She boarded at Normanhurst Girls School in Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, during World War I. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「P. L. Travers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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