During the Second World War she worked for the British Ministry of Information.Īfter the war, in 1946, she moved into her home in Smith Street, before purchasing the Shawfield Street house in 1962. Seven sequels followed, the last in 1988. The book, published in 1934, was an instant hit. While living in Sussex, in 1933, and while recovering from pleurisy, she started writing the children's book Mary Poppins - a character she had first featured in a short story in 1926. In 1931, Ms Travers moved from London to Sussex with friend Madge Burnand. She changed her name 'Pamela Lyndon Travers', often abbreviated to P.L Travers, to act and dance on stage. Travers' Smith Street homeĪfter boarding at a school in Sydney during the First World War, and later touring Australia and New Zealand with Allan Wilkie's Shakespearean Company, she moved to England, aged 25, in 1924.
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