Travers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon), 1899-1996

found: Washington Post, 04-25-96 (P.L. Travers, 96, creator of Mary Poppins, d. 04-23-96, London; Pamela Lyndon Travers, b. Maryborough, Australia; original name Helen Lyndon Goff)

found: Info. to LC from State Library of NSW, Mar. 25, 1999 (The State Library of NSW is convinced that 1906 is not P.L. Travers date of birth, despite the fact that she consistently cited it herself. The Mitchell Collection of the State Library of NSW holds the papers of P.L. Travers including childhood letters by Travers written in 1905. She left Australia for England in Feb. 1924; on the passenger list her age is given as 24 years; her birthday was 9 August, making her year of birth 1899, though no trace of her birth could be found in the records in Maryborough, Queensland)

found: Academic Amer. Encyc., 1997 (Travers, P.L.; Pamela Lyndon Travers; b. Queensland, Australia Aug. 9, 1906; d. Apr. 23, 1996)

found: Encyc. Brit., 1995 (Travers, P.L.; in full Pamela Lyndon Travers; b. Aug. 9, 1906)

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