Uncovering the woman behind Mary Poppins

The easy answer is that she was the author of the Mary Poppins books that resulted in a beloved Disney movie and a Broadway musical.But Travers played other roles during her 96 years: she was an actress and a journalist in Australia and the U.K.; she wrote propaganda for the U.S. during the Second World War; she was a poet respected by the great Irish poets.

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