No warts? Mary Poppins, the New Yorker's letters page and the question of sources
My first reaction to seeing an item about “Mary Poppins” was naturally one of joy at the opportunity to drop references to spoonfuls of sugar, kite-flying, bird-feeding, and a word that, if you say it loud enough, always sounds precocious.* (We will leave, dear reader, the question of scolding and domination for another day.)
But Mary Poppins writer P.L. Travers didn’t herself have the cheeriest story, and, as it turns out, the story of her story (and possibly that story’s story) is similarly chequered.
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