Travers never married, but she had a longtime roommate, Madge Burnand, who many speculated was a romantic partner.
Travers felt an affinity for children, and once explained to a journalist, quoted in Something about the Author, that she wrote books featuring young people who "know more than grownups do."
Travers penned several other books in the Mary Poppins series, including Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, Mary Poppins in the Park etc. Her 1934 fiction, Mary Poppins, became the basis for an Academy Award-winning film by Walt Disney in 1964. Travers toured with a Shakespearean company, but soon took a job as a journalist, moved to England, and began writing poetry for the Irish Statesman under the mentoring of poets George Russell (known as A. She boarded at Loreto Girls School in Normanhurst, a suburb of Sydney, during World War I. Two years later, Travers Goff died at home at the age of 43. Travers was five years old, when they relocated to Allora in 1905. The family lived in a large home with servants in Maryborough until Mrs. He was unsuccessful as a bank manager due to his chronic alcoholism, and was eventually demoted to the position of bank clerk. Her father, Travers Robert Goff, was of Irish descent and born in 1864 at Queens Road, New Cross in the Borough of Deptford, south-east London, England. Her mother, Margaret Agnes Goff (née Morehead), was Australian and the sister of Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Premier of Queensland from 1888 to 1890. Travers was born in Maryborough, Australia, on August 9, 1899. Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-born British novelist, actress and journalist.
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