She rejoined the Allan Wilkie Company and travelled Australia and New Zealand. It was at this time that the more sophisticated 'Pamela Travers' emerged into public view. This was followed by a tour of New South Wales with a repertory company. In March 1921 her stage career began when Allan Wilkie offered her a part in The Merry Wives of Windsor. After leaving school Travers worked as a cashier for the Australian Gas and Light Company at her relatives' insistence. She attended the Bowral branch of the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School and, from 1912, Normanhurst Boarding School for Girls at Ashfield where her love of writing and the stage evolved. The family moved to Bowral, New South Wales, and Travers had to take on adult responsibilities as the oldest child. In 1907 Travers's life changed forever with the death of her lyrical, melancholy father whose first name she adopted as her pseudonym for a lifetime of writing. Travers had a difficult childhood with an alcoholic father and periodic separations. The eldest of three children, Travers grew up in a Celtic atmosphere with a succession of Irish nannies. Travers' was the daughter of Travers Robert Goff, an English bank manager with Irish connections, and his Scots-Irish wife, Margaret Agnes, nee Morehead. It's glamorous and it's a good film on its own level, but I don't think it is very like my books.'P.L. By 1977, however her opinion of the film had softened, with Travers stating, 'I've seen it once or twice, and I've learned to live with it. In real life, she lambasted the film to the point that her last will and testament stated that no Americans would be allowed to adapt her work.

The movie ends without showing Travers' reaction to the film, other than indifference before the film begins.

Though based on the real Travers, several elements of the film's depiction of her and her story are dramatized and fictionalized. In the film, Travers is portrayed by Emma Thompson as an adult and by Annie Rose Buckley as a child, where she is referred to by her birth name of Helen. During the film's development in the early 1960s, she struggles with Walt Disney and his studio's attempts to convince her to sell the film rights to the novel. Travers is the author of the 1934 novel Mary Poppins.

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Margaret Goff (mother) Source Pamela Lyndon Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff) is the protagonist of the 2013 biographical drama film, Saving Mr.

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