Elisabeth Galvin

The Author of Mary Poppins

The Unknown Story of P L Travers. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 224 Seiten
ISBN 139904317X
EAN 9781399043175
Veröffentlicht 30. März 2026
Verlag/Hersteller Pen & Sword Books
32,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Mary Poppins is a publishing phenomenon of eight books written across 55 years, translated into 20 languages, including Swahili. The 1964 Disney film starring Julie Andrews remains one of the most popular children's movies of all time. Yet the author did not want it to be known whether she was 'man, woman or kangaroo'.

Portrait

At every opportunity when she was a child, ELISABETH GALVIN would jump on her mother's lap to ask for a story. One of these books was The Railway Children, which began her lifelong love of literature. After studying English and Classics at Durham University, she became a magazine journalist in London, Australia and Hong Kong. A keen open-water swimmer, Elisabeth recited passages by Jane Austen and the Brontës to herself as she swam across the English Channel to France in 2002 (it took her 10 hours 51 minutes so that's quite a lot of romantic literature).