Pl travers books5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() While shopping with Jane and Michael (‘Christmas Shopping’), she examines herself in the shop windows: ![]() Whenever she has a new item of clothing-a new hat, or new shoes, or a fresh pair of gloves-she can be found checking her reflection in any available surface. Mary Poppins is particular about her attire. The library also holds a parrot-headed umbrella donated by Travers, a version of which is among Mary Poppins’ most recognisable accessories.) ![]() (In later years, Travers presented the doll to the New York Public Library. In fact, Travers provided her illustrator, Mary Shepard, with a model doll on which to base the drawings. It’s no accident that she is described by Jane Banks, the eldest of Mary Poppins’ nursery charges, as looking ‘rather like a wooden Dutch doll’. Mary Poppins is a thin person with ‘shiny black hair’, ‘large feet and hands, and small, rather peering blue eyes’. ![]()
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