Sexing Mary Poppins, and Saving Mr. Banks, Part II
"Nobody ever knew what Mary Poppins felt about it, because Mary Poppins never told anybody anything."(The first part of this essay appeared earlier this week.)Pamela Lyndon Goff - who would make herself known to the world as "P. L. Travers" - began writing Mary Poppins while cozily ensconced in a thatched cottage in Sussex with her lesbian lover, Madge Burnand, in 1933. She was weak from an attack of …