P. L. Travers, the Glossary
Pamela Lyndon Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England.[1]
Table of Contents
97 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Allan Wilkie, Allora, Queensland, Artist-in-residence, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australian Gas Light Company, Bank teller, BBC Radio 4, Blue plaque, Bowral, Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Brisbane, Broadway theatre, Buckingham Palace, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Cameron Mackintosh, Carl Jung, Chelsea, London, Colony of Queensland, Desert Island Discs, Elizabeth II, Emily Blunt, Emma Thompson, F. C. Burnand, Fairy tale, Film adaptation, Flirting, Fontainebleau, Frank Morton (journalist), George Gurdjieff, George Moore (novelist), George William Russell, HarperCollins, Hopi, Hubert Butler, Irish Statesman, John Collier (sociologist), Joseph Maunsel Hone, King's Road, List of poets, Mary Poppins (book series), Mary Poppins (character), Mary Poppins (film), Mary Poppins (musical), Mary Poppins Opens the Door, Mary Poppins Returns, Maryborough, Queensland, Mayfield and Five Ashes, Mercury (planet), Ministry of Information (United Kingdom), ... Expand index (47 more) »
- People from Bowral
- Students of George Gurdjieff
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.
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Allan Wilkie
Allan Wilkie CBE (9 February 1878 – 7 January 1970) was an English Shakespearean actor of Scottish descent noted for his career in Australia.
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Allora, Queensland
Allora is a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities.
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Ashfield, New South Wales
Ashfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Australian Gas Light Company
The Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) was an Australian gas and electricity retailer, operated entirely by McCarthy Hanlin.
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Bank teller
A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank whose responsibilities include the handling of customer cash and negotiable instruments.
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BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
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Blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.
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Bowral
Bowral is the largest town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, about ninety minutes southwest of Sydney.
Boyd Dunlop Morehead
Boyd Dunlop Morehead (24 August 1843 – 30 October 1905) was a politician in Queensland, Australia.
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Brisbane
Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.
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Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946) is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals.
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.
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Chelsea, London
Chelsea is an affluent area in West London, England, due south-west of Charing Cross by approximately 2.5 miles.
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Colony of Queensland
The Colony of Queensland was a colony of the British Empire from 1859 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.
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Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.
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Emily Blunt
Emily Olivia Laura Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress.
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Emma Thompson
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and writer.
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F. C. Burnand
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (29 November 1836 – 21 April 1917), usually known as F. C. Burnand, was an English comic writer and prolific playwright, best known today as the librettist of Arthur Sullivan's opera Cox and Box.
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Fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.
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Film adaptation
A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.
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Flirting
Flirting or coquetry is a social and sexual behavior involving body language, or spoken or written communication between humans.
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Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.
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Frank Morton (journalist)
Frank Morton (12 May 1869 – 15 December 1923) was a journalist and poet, active in Australia.
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George Gurdjieff
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (c. 1867 – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and dance teacher.
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George Moore (novelist)
George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.
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George William Russell
George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935), who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Hopi
The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona.
Hubert Butler
Hubert Marshal Butler (23 October 1900 – 5 January 1991) was an Irish essayist who wrote on a wide range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II.
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Irish Statesman
The Irish Statesman was a weekly journal promoting the views of the Irish Dominion League.
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John Collier (sociologist)
John Collier (May 4, 1884 – May 8, 1968), a sociologist and writer, was an American social reformer and Native American advocate.
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Joseph Maunsel Hone
Joseph Maunsell Hone (1882 – 26 March 1959) was an Irish writer, literary historian, critic and biographer of George Moore and W. B. Yeats.
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King's Road
King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents) is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both in west London, England.
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List of poets
This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.
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Mary Poppins (book series)
Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by Australian-British writer P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988.
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Mary Poppins (character)
Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers' books of the same name along with all of their adaptations.
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Mary Poppins (film)
Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.
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Mary Poppins (musical)
Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a book by Julian Fellowes.
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Mary Poppins Opens the Door
Mary Poppins Opens the Door, is a British children's fantasy novel, by the Australian-British writer P.L. Travers, the third book and last novel in the Mary Poppins series that features the magical English nanny Mary Poppins.
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Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns is a 2018 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Rob Marshall, with a screenplay written by David Magee and a story by Magee, Marshall, and John DeLuca.
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Maryborough, Queensland
Maryborough is a city and a suburb in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Mayfield and Five Ashes
Mayfield and Five Ashes is a civil parish in the High Weald of East Sussex, England.
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Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.
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Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War.
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Musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
Navajo
The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Normanhurst School, Ashfield
The Normanhurst School was an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls that operated in Ashfield, in the Inner Western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Occult
The occult (from occultus) is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism.
Oliver St. John Gogarty
Oliver Joseph St.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.
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Pantomime
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.
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Parabola (magazine)
Parabola, also known as Parabola: The Search for Meaning, is a Manhattan-based quarterly magazine on the subjects of mythology and the world's religious and cultural traditions.
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Patricia Demers
Dr.
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Prefect
Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.
Premier of Queensland
The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick; born 9 October 1935) is a member of the British royal family.
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Puebloans
The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices.
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Punch (magazine)
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells.
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Radcliffe College
Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was founded in 1879.
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Reynal & Hitchcock
Reynal and Hitchcock was a publishing company in New York City.
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Room and board
Room and board is a phrase describing a situation in which, in exchange for money, labour or other considerations, a person is provided with a place to live as well as meals on a comprehensive basis.
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Saving Mr. Banks
Saving Mr.
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Scripps College
Scripps College is a private liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California.
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Shakespeare in performance
Thousands of performances of William Shakespeare's plays have been staged since the end of the 16th century.
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Sherman Brothers
The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of brothers Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (June 12, 1928 – May 25, 2024).
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Smith College
Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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State Library of New South Wales
The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
Sydney Church of England Grammar School
The Sydney Church of England Grammar School (commonly known as Shore or Shore School) is a dual-campus independent Anglican single-sex and co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys, located on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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The Bulletin (Australian periodical)
The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880.
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The bush
"The bush" is a term mostly used in the English vernacular of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand where it is largely synonymous with hinterland or backwoods respectively, referring to a natural undeveloped area.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
The Daily Telegraph, also nicknamed The Tele, is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp.
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.
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The New English Weekly
The New English Weekly was a leading British review of "Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts." It was founded in April 1932 by Alfred Richard Orage shortly after his return from Paris.
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The Quarto Group
The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.
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The Sun (New Zealand newspaper)
The Sun was a newspaper published in Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Titania is a character in William Shakespeare's 1595–1596 play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Travers (crater)
Travers is a crater on Mercury.
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Twickenham
Twickenham is a suburban district in London, England.
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W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.
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Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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West End theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.
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Woollahra
Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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1977 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 1977 are appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1977.
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See also
People from Bowral
- Ada Evans
- Adam Arkapaw
- Arthur Upfield
- Austin Chapman
- Cam Gordon (rugby union)
- Cecil Healy
- Chelsea Lenarduzzi
- Chris Corrigan
- Don Bradman
- Elisabeth MacIntyre
- Elspeth McLachlan
- Estelle Asmodelle
- Frank Debenham
- Geordie Williamson
- Grace Musgrove
- Hayden Kerr
- Ian Hindmarsh
- Irene Vera Young
- James Kemsley
- Jim Hindmarsh
- John Kerin
- John Olsen (Australian artist)
- Kalindi Commerford
- Lauren Cheatle
- Megan Rivers
- Nathan Hindmarsh
- P. L. Travers
- Paul White (missionary)
- Percival Gray
- Richard Carleton
- Ross Gollan
- Samantha Economos
- Scott Geddes
- Simon Chapman (academic)
- Steve Hanson
- Steve Streeter
- Walter Scott (soccer)
Students of George Gurdjieff
- Alfred Richard Orage
- Bill Murray
- Charles Stanley Nott
- Ethel Merston
- George Adie
- Gurdjieff Foundation
- Helen Perkin
- Henry Sinclair, 2nd Baron Pentland
- Jacob Needleman
- James George (diplomat)
- Jane Heap
- Jean Toomer
- Jean-Claude Lubtchansky
- Jeanne de Salzmann
- John G. Bennett
- Kathryn Hulme
- Laurence Rosenthal
- Margaret C. Anderson
- Maurice Nicoll
- Michel de Salzmann
- Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
- P. D. Ouspensky
- P. L. Travers
- Paul Reynard
- Peter Brook
- René Daumal
- Sergey Merkurov
- Solita Solano
- Terence Stamp
- Thomas de Hartmann
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._L._Travers
Also known as Helen Goff, Helen Lyndon Goff, P L Travers, P. L Travers, P.L. Travers, PL Travers, Pamela L. Travers, Pamela Lyndon Goff, Pamela Lyndon Goff Travers, Pamela Lyndon Travers, Pamela Travers, Travers Robert Goff.
, Musical film, Myth, NASA, Navajo, New South Wales, Normanhurst School, Ashfield, Occult, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Order of the British Empire, Pantomime, Parabola (magazine), Patricia Demers, Prefect, Premier of Queensland, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Puebloans, Punch (magazine), Radcliffe College, Reynal & Hitchcock, Room and board, Saving Mr. Banks, Scripps College, Shakespeare in performance, Sherman Brothers, Smith College, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Sydney Church of England Grammar School, The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The bush, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Merry Wives of Windsor, The New English Weekly, The Quarto Group, The Sun (New Zealand newspaper), Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Tom Hanks, Travers (crater), Twickenham, W. B. Yeats, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Pictures, West End theatre, Woollahra, World War II, 1977 New Year Honours.