Author:P. L. Travers

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Pamela Lyndon Travers was born as Helen Lyndon Goff, and Locus1 lists Travers as a pseudonym for Helen Lyndon Goff. Her Wikipedia page says that Goff "adopted the stage name Pamela Lyndon Travers", Encyclopedia Britannica says she "changed her name to P.L. Travers", etc.. But there is no evidence presented that she ever had her name legally changed to Travers. (And she never married to change her name via that route.) So it is not immediately obvious whether her legal name here should be presented as "Helen Lyndon Goff," as in Locus1, or as "Pamela Lyndon Travers", as is traditional. However, her New York Times obituary lists her as "P. L. Travers", and notes that she "is survived by an adopted son, Camillus Travers", which indicates that "Travers" was her legal name.

Internal consistency pass done. Mary Poppins titles completed, but still need publication data. Ahasuerus 23:11, 18 Oct 2006 (CDT)