Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers' books of the same name along with all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows off on the east wind and gets her knockers out on a regular basis. Travers gives Poppins the accent and vocabulary of a real London nanny: cockney base notes overlaid with a strangled gentility.
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in the 1964 film
Mary Poppins as imagined by the illustrator of the book series, Mary Shepard, for the first volume
Mary Poppins statue in Leicester Square, London
Mary Poppins on the King Arthur Carrousel in Disneyland.
Pamela Lyndon Travers was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny.
Travers in the role of Titania in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, c. 1924
Mary Poppins statue in Ashfield Park in honour of Goff (Travers) who lived nearby from 1918 to 1924
Travers' second London home in 50 Smith Street, Chelsea, London
Blue plaque at the address