She would spend the final years of her life in London’s Chelsea district, dying from the effects of an epileptic seizure, on 23 April 1996 at the age of ninety-six. On Seamus Heaney The Footman Johnny Magory Joins Irish Legends Magnus Chase and the Sword of Summer Oh My God, What a Complete Diary 2022 The Black Echo. 2 Travers Pl Brigantine, NJ 08203: View Details : Linda Dolfi (73) Republican Party: 2 Travers Pl Brigantine, NJ 08203: View Details : George Townsend (75) Republican Party: 3 Travers Pl Brigantine, NJ 08203: View Details : Edythe Donohue (69) Unaffiliated: 3 Travers Pl Brigantine, NJ 08203: View Details : Rita Durante (92) Democratic Party: 4. Travers Park, Allora, 4362ĭedication Approx. In 1977 Pamela Travers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 1978 received an honorary degree from Chatham College, Pittsburgh, USA. The monument was relocated from New England Highway and South Street in 2014. She only ever returned once to visit Australia, for two weeks in 1963. In February 1924, she fulfilled a long-held dream and sailed for England and Ireland and began her career as the writer, P.L. Taking the name, Pamela Travers, she pursued a career on the stage, touring with a theatre company through regional New South Wales and New Zealand during 19.īy this time she had begun to write and publish poetry, as well as newspaper columns. After the death of her father in 1907, the family moved to New South Wales. Travers (Aug April 23, 1996), full name Pamela Lyndon Travers, was an Australian-born author best remembered as the author of the Mary Poppins series of books. Her family moved to Allora, when she was three. Pamela Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, on 9th August, 1899.

Travers Park which honours the author was officially opened on the 23rd April 2018. The granite sculpture commemorates Pamela L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins.

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