Camillus travers hone twin brother

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In 1939, just four years after the death of Æ (poet George William Russell, editor of the Irish Statesman, the leading literary newspaper of the nascent Irish Free State, her mentor, and more) as she approached forty, Pamela Travers decided that she wanted a child. But not just any baby, it would be a baby with Irish blood and a strong literary lineage. So she went to Ireland and adopted an infant, the grandson of W. B. Yeats’ first biographer and Æ’s publisher. He was named Camillus Hone.

Hone and his wife were raising their many grandchildren who had been dumped into their care but they could not cope.
So they arranged for the two youngest of the brood, six month old twin brothers, to be adopted by a trusted family friend from London: Pamela Lyndon Travers.

The writer however refused to take her twin brother Anthony, too, or any of their other siblings; she had selected Camillus following the advice of her astrologer, consulted

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‘Mary Poppins’ author destroyed adopted son’s life

Emma Thompson plays the Australian-born creator of Mary Poppins in a new movie. But omitted from the film are details from Pamela Lyndon Travers’ anställda life that reveal a far darker side to the famously difficult writer.

“Saving Mr. Banks” also stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, with the film depicting Disney’s 20-year battle to secure the movie rights for Travers’ story.

Particularly disturbing was Travers’ adoption of her son, a twin who was separated from his brother because Travers decided she only wanted one of the boys. This decision was to have terrible repercussions for both their lives.

Travers was born in Queensland to British parents but it wasn’t till she moved to London in her 20s that her career took off.

After failed attempts at acting she devoted herself to writing, publishing “Mary Poppins” to great acclaim in 1934.

In spite of her literary success true love el

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P. L. Travers

Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)

Pamela Lyndon TraversOBE (TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England.^[1] She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books,^[2] which feature the eponymousmagical nanny.

Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books.

Travers travelled to New York City during World War II while working for the British Ministry of Information. At that time, Walt Disney contacted her about selling to