Travers was to state her certain belief that this magic white horse ran underground and came up eventually as Mary Poppins. Her sisters became transfixed by the story, it seemed they forgot the potential family tragedy that threatened in the nearby creek as they listened to the exploits of the magical white horse. In the story, this horse could gallop across the sea like a shimmering comet and fly, even though it had no wings. To calm the anxious girls, even while fearful herself, she gathered them around the fire and told them a story of her own creation, about a magical white horse. But instead of panicking and making her younger sisters even more anxious, Lyndon did something that was a perhaps a portent to her future. This naturally alarmed Lyndon and her sisters. One evening on a day marked by a heavy downpour of rain, her mother ran from their house in Holly Street in a tremendously anguished state, declaring that she was going to drown herself in the creek that passed near the back of the property. Lyndon’s mother had never really adjusted to the death of her husband and to her own reduced circumstances. This incident signalled a new stage of her life and also answered the question, in her own mind, as to where Mary Poppins came from. PL Travers recalled vividly on two occasions later in life – one in a letter to a friend and the other in an interview – a dramatic incident that took place when she was about 11 years old. Lyndon was around eight years of age at the time of her arrival in Bowral and was enrolled in the local branch of the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School.
As the family was without a breadwinner, it led to her mother, Margaret, and two sisters, Biddy and Moya, later that year moving to a cottage in Bowral NSW that was rented for them by a wealthy aunt. In February 1907, her father, Travers Goff, who was a bank clerk, passed away. Her family moved to another Queensland town, Allora, when she was three. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, on 9th August, 1899. Travers, the creator of these stories set in London featuring an English nanny, was actually an Australian. It surprises many people to learn that P.L.
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