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Flanagan surveys P. L. Travers's early life and then focuses on the fraught process of script development for the Disney film adaptation of Mary Poppins.
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Facts Float Away with the Myth
2005
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 December 2005; (p. 17) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on an article that appeared in the 19 December 2005 issue of the New Yorker. The article, 'Becoming Mary Poppins', dealt with some details of P. L. Travers's personal life. Wyndham contends that the article's author failed to fully acknowledge information derived from an interview with Valerie Lawson, Travers's biographer.
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Facts Float Away with the Myth
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 December 2005; (p. 17) A column canvassing current literary news including a report on an article that appeared in the 19 December 2005 issue of the New Yorker. The article, 'Becoming Mary Poppins', dealt with some details of P. L. Travers's personal life. Wyndham contends that the article's author failed to fully acknowledge information derived from an interview with Valerie Lawson, Travers's biographer.
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Becoming Mary Poppins
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