Editing P. L. Travers (section)

=== In England ===

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On 9 February 1924, Travers left Australia for England, settling in London.{{Sfn|Lawson|2006 |p=80|pp=}} She only revisited Australia once, in the 1960s. For four years she wrote poetry for the ''[[Irish Statesman]]'',<ref name=":0" /> beginning while in Ireland in 1925 when Travers met the poet [[George William Russell]] (who wrote under the name "Æ") who, as editor of the ''Statesman'', accepted some of her poems for publication. Through Russell, whose kindness towards younger writers was legendary, Travers met [[W. B. Yeats]], [[Oliver St. John Gogarty]] and other [[List of poets|Irish poets]] who fostered her interest in and knowledge of world [[mythology]].{{sfn|Lawson|2005|p=185}}

After visiting [[Fontainebleau]] in France, Travers met [[George Ivanovich Gurdjieff]], an [[occultist]], of whom she became a "disciple". Around the same time she was taught by [[Carl Gustav Jung]] in Switzerland.<ref name=":0" /> In 1931, she moved with her friend Madge Burnand from their rented flat in London to a [[Cottage#Thatched cottages in England|thatched cottage]] in Sussex.<ref name="picardie" /> There, in the winter of 1933, she began to write ''Mary Poppins''.<ref name="picardie" /> During the 1930s, Travers reviewed drama for ''[[The New English Weekly]]'' and published the book ''Moscow Excursion'' (1934). ''Mary Poppins'' was published that year with great success. Many sequels followed.<ref name=":0" />

During the Second World War, Travers worked for the [[British Ministry of Information]], spending five years in the US, publishing ''I Go by Sea, I Go by Land'' in 1941.<ref name=":0" /> At the invitation of her friend [[John Collier (sociologist)|John Collier]], the [[Commissioner of Indian Affairs|US Commissioner of Indian Affairs]], Travers spent two summers living among the [[Navajo people|Navajo]], [[Hopi]] and [[Puebloan peoples|Pueblo]] peoples, studying their mythology and folklore.{{Sfn|Burness|Griswold|1982}}<ref name="witchell"> {{cite news|last=Witchell|first=Alex|date=22 September 1994|title=At Home With: P. L. Travers; Where Starlings Greet the Stars|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/22/garden/at-home-with-p-l-travers-where-starlings-greet-the-stars.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|access-date=21 November 2013}}</ref> Travers moved back to England at the end of the war, where she continued writing.<ref name=":0" /> She moved into 50 Smith Street, [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], London, which is commemorated with an English Heritage [[blue plaque]]. She returned to the US in 1965 and became [[Writer in residence|writer-in-residence]] at [[Radcliffe College]] from 1965 to 1966 and at [[Smith College]] in 1966 and lecturing at [[Scripps College]] in 1970.<ref name=":0" />{{sfn|Lawson|2006|p=290}} She published various works and edited ''[[Parabola: the Magazine of Myth and Tradition]]'' from 1976 to her death.<ref name=":0" />