Becoming Mary Poppins single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Becoming Mary Poppins
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Flanagan surveys P. L. Travers's early life and then focuses on the fraught process of script development for the Disney film adaptation of Mary Poppins.

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    y separately published work icon The New Yorker 19 December 2005 Z1231128 2005 periodical issue 2005

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Facts Float Away with the Myth Susan Wyndham , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 December 2005; (p. 17)
A column canvassing current literary news including a report on an article that appeared in the 19 December 2005 issue of the New Yorker. The article, 'Becoming Mary Poppins', dealt with some details of P. L. Travers's personal life. Wyndham contends that the article's author failed to fully acknowledge information derived from an interview with Valerie Lawson, Travers's biographer.
Facts Float Away with the Myth Susan Wyndham , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 December 2005; (p. 17)
A column canvassing current literary news including a report on an article that appeared in the 19 December 2005 issue of the New Yorker. The article, 'Becoming Mary Poppins', dealt with some details of P. L. Travers's personal life. Wyndham contends that the article's author failed to fully acknowledge information derived from an interview with Valerie Lawson, Travers's biographer.
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Subjects:
  • Mary Poppins P. L. Travers , 1934 single work children's fiction
  • Mary Poppins Bill Walsh , Don Da Gradi , Richard M. Sherman , Robert B. Sherman , 1964 single work film/TV
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