NH: Yes, the original was much more real than the film...I must say
though, that when I read the novel as a kid, I found her scary. I kept
waiting for her to start spanking the kids. She didn't seem to like them
very much. Which may say more of my then expectations of adults than
anything about the book.
-nalo
On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Jen Hill wrote:
> The 'real' Mary Poppins as portrayed by P.L. Travers in the Poppins
> series is no sugary Julie Andrews... and, perfect for this list, is
> the fact that when she isn't with the family on Cherry Tree Lane, she's
> taking care of princes on another planet. (In one book they come down
> looking for her and she's quite displeased.)
>
> Is she a feminist? Let's just say she efficiently stages a takeover of
> the Banks family with its bureacratic petit bourgeois patriarch and there
> is no romance with the chimney sweep!
>
"There are two kinds of dates; the kind that you go out with, and the
small fruit that you eat."
-my aunt
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