I think she would have hated the new movie as much as she disliked the original Disney film of Mary Poppins. Why Disney hated Mrs Mary Poppins: New film tells the... 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Just as she had imagined the Banks family, so she would invent a conveniently dead father for her new off-the-shelf son, and motherhood for herself. There is another argument in Pamela’s favour and of her adoption of Camillus, however: he was far better off with her than he would have been with our real, feckless and inebriated parents in London, or with our mother’s impoverished family in Ireland. Sensation! She studied at Normanhurst Girls School. British author P. L. Travers (1899–1996), although the author of many writings for children and adults, was best known for her 1934 book Mary Poppins and its sequels. Noting the small differences in their birth times, she went away and had both babies’ horoscopes prepared by an astrologer guru friend in California, who firmly recommended she take Camillus, not Anthony. Camillus Hone-Travers was born on 15 August 1939. 2 He died at the age of 43 when Ly… To live up to her own unfulfilled ambitions, it would have to be a baby with Irish blood and a strong literary lineage. The young actress was no great beauty, and by her mid-20s her dreams of stage and silent-screen stardom had stalled. She immigrated to … At the age of 40 Travers adopted a baby boy from Ireland named Camillus Hone. Pamela was a contrary, divided, hypochondriac of ambiguous sexuality — and Mary Poppins, her cure-all magic nanny, satisfied her need to escape from reality into fantasy and was also a wonderful tonic for millions of children. She was born as Helen Lyndon Goff in 1899, and her father — whose first name was Travers — was a clerk from Deptford, South-East London. He emigrated to Australia, where his East End charm landed him a banking job and a well-heeled bride, Margaret Morehead, who hailed from a wealthy sugar refining dynasty. 2, 1 He died in 2011. As Valerie Lawson recounts in the definitive biography, Mary Poppins, She Wrote, it was at this time that she met middle-aged, London-born actor Lawrence Campbell, ‘the first in a long chain of men who would, in her words, pass her from one to the other’. Travers died on 23 April 1996 in her London, England home from an epileptic seizure, aged 96. Camillus Travers Hone Pamela Lyndon Travers , OBE ( / ˈ t r æ v ər s / ; born Helen Lyndon Goff ; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996), was an Australian-born British novelist , actress, and journalist who migrated to England and lived most of her adult life there. Joseph Hone / The Times / newssyndication.com. Perhaps so, for the twins’ brother Joseph Hone says he ‘felt resentful that he wasn’t chosen . Marypoppins3 Source:Supplied One can well understand why this poignant story hasn’t made it into the latest Mary Poppins film. Joseph Hone, who lived with Pamela Travers and his younger brother Camillus in the 50s. Thus, on the whim of one self-centred woman, were two lives mapped out. 1 He was the son of Nathaniel Marlow Hone and Bridget Anthony. The twins were the grandchildren of Joseph Hone, an Irish writer and the biographer of poet W.B. However, none of these dramatic trials and tribulations of Pamela’s with Camillus and Anthony appear in Saving Mr Banks. In Victoria Coren Mitchell’s recent BBC2 documentary, Camillus’s daughter Kitty Travers said her father had used his concealed adoption forever “as … And she had the application. She adopted one son from Ireland, Camillus Travers Hone. But Travers Goff fell ill and died prematurely, forcing his subsequently impoverished family to move to a tin-roofed shack and rely on the charity of various aunts. Died. Israeli healthcare group says coronavirus infections have PLUNGED by at least 60% among vaccinated over-60s, COVID-19 positivity rate tops 10 percent in nearly a THIRD of all NYC zip codes as Gov. New study by Boston researchers says you can blame it on your ethnicity. And she was right. Nov 2011 For all his charm, looks, academic promise and literary connections, he disappointed his mother by taking modest jobs at a friend’s fashion company and in an antique bookshop. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. So, in 1924, when she was 24, she sailed to England, intending to inveigle herself into his social set. But entertaining though the Poppins saga may be, it was only one interlude in Travers’ extraordinary life, which saw her navigating Bohemian salons (and bedrooms) as she sought recognition and an escape from her own grim childhood. Pamela Travers, the woman who wrote Mary Poppins, is pictured with her adopted son Camillus Hone in the Forties. Pamela Travers, it is said, promptly fainted, and when she came round, had her housekeeper throw Anthony out, insisting that Camillus must never see him again. Eventually, like her father, both boys succumbed to alcoholism. Born. He was married to Frances Connell. Rather the opposite. They shared a London flat from 1927 to 1934, then moved to Pound Cottage near Mayfield, East Sussex, where Travers published the first of the Mary Poppins books. Mother of Camillus Travers Hone. Published: 17:16 EST, 25 October 2013 | Updated: 17:17 EST, 25 October 2013. Materially, Camillus wanted for nothing. His mother’s, too. It is hard not to argue that, on seeing the baby twins in my grandfather’s house in 1940, Pamela should have adopted both of them or neither, and then looked for a single baby elsewhere. Explore The Naked Ape's photos on Flickr. She can been seen perching on rocks wearing only shorts and a floppy hat, and displaying a remarkably boyish figure. 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Emma Thompson (right) who plays Travers, in the film Saving Mr Banks. Uncannily, he, too, married a woman called Frances — the successful TV actress Frances White, who appeared in Crossroads and the sitcom May To December. She adopted one son from Ireland, Camillus Travers Hone. She was fondly called Lyndonduring her childhood days. I would never have met Pamela but for the fact that she was a friend of my grandfather, old Joe Hone, friend and biographer of Yeats and George Moore. The year is 1940 and, desperate to reduce their burden, the grandparents arrange for the two youngest of the brood — twin brothers, aged six months — to be adopted by a trusted family friend from London. By separating those twins in their cradle, the writer whose books were so keenly attuned to children’s sensitivities, blighted not one life but two. Travers’ early experiences were so miserable that, in her 20s, she used her considerable powers of imagination to re-invent herself: even her name was made up. Hone and his wife were raising their seven grandchildren. In 1940, Travers adopted the young grandson of Joseph and Vera Hone, a baby that had the “Irish blood and a strong literary lineage” she was looking for. She sent the first draft of her new children’s novel to the latest writer to captivate her, the handsome poet and critic Francis Macnamara. By the age of 17 — by then strikingly tall and slim, with a frizz of auburn curls — she had left home, working briefly as a secretary before becoming a theatre actress. He was married to Frances Connell. But not just any baby. PETER WALKER: Are slim people ALWAYS fitter than fatties? He died in 2011. Travers never revealed whether the married Campbell seduced her after becoming her acting coach, but it seems plausible, for he even invited her to move into his Sydney home while he trained her for the stage. What, then, became of the little boy Pamela Travers rejected? But Camillus, unable to forgive his mother for lying to him (she had told him he was her natural son and that his late father had been a wealthy sugar magnate), went off the rails. . Many people get over being lied to about their family, and Camillus should have done this. Though Travers had numerous fleeting relationships with men throughout her life, she lived for more than a decade with Madge Burnand, daughter of Sir Francis Burnand, a playwright and the former editor of Punch. She lived to be 96 and left well over £2 million. She left his twin brother Anthony at the mercy of neglectful relatives. The story had been coarsened, “Disneyfied”, she said. Pamela asked me to stay with her in her Chelsea house in the late 1950s, in the hopes that in meeting his more secure elder brother, I would help set Camillus to rights. She worked with Walt Disney to make the 1964 movie version of the book Mary Poppins. The problem was that Pamela had not the nursery, nannying and mothering skills of her creation. Sent down from Oxford for repeatedly absconding to gamble at illegal casinos in Mayfair, at 21 he was jailed for six months for drunken driving while already banned. Romantic as ever, Travers later claimed to have arrived in London with £10 in her pocket. Equally intriguing was her relationship with Madge Burnand, daughter of the playwright and Punch editor Sir Francis Burnand, who, at Russell’s suggestion, became her flatmate in 1927. Camillus was furious with his mother and their relationship was damaged. Until she was seven, they lived in a big house in Queensland, with servants and a  horse-drawn carriage. Before Travers died, however — aged 96, in 1996 — she feared her son would booze away her estate, so she left it in trust for him and her grandchildren, Kate, Bruno and Cicely, leaving instructions that he should only be paid a modest allowance. Travers wrote Mary Poppins, to great acclaim, in 1934. Her fascination for Ireland and its writers had been fuelled by her father, who (in addition to lying that he was Irish himself) had read her the poetry of such greats as William Butler Yeats. His twin, Anthony, was brought up by grandparents. Camillus and Anthony set out around the pubs of Chelsea for some days celebrating the reunion. According to a report in the Mail Online, the Hone patriarch pleaded with Travers to take the family’s twin sons but the writer insisted she could only look after one, selecting the baby based on advice from her astrologer. She named him Camillus Travers Hone (Hone was his grandfather’s surname), and she did not tell him he had a twin brother. The Poppins film has grossed £90million profits worldwide, and she was guaranteed five per cent of the royalties. . Their friendship, in the words of one biographer, was "intense", but equally ambiguous. Camillus Travers Hone: Birthdate: estimated between 1922 and 1974: Death: 2011 Immediate Family: Son of Nat Hone Brother of Private Half brother of Joseph Hone and Geraldine Hone. Quite what little Camillus made of the overbearing Muscovite, who delighted avant-garde audiences by describing erotic fantasies in the crudest terms, is anyone’s guess. Camillus's twin brother (Anthony Marlow Hone) Died on July 13, 2005 I am not sure whether Camillus got the chance to pay his respects but I do know that when P.L Travers separated them from birth by taking Camillus it went on to cause enough pain to span two lifetimes. The new film would have been better titled Looking for Mr Banks, for that was the driving force in her life and of her writing: looking for her father, Travers, whom she had dearly loved but who, at the age of 8, she had lost. Frances told me she was hugely impressed by Thompson’s portrayal of her mother-in-law, but relieved there had been no reference to Camillus. In 1976, she became consulting editor for the New York-based journal 'Parabola', dedicated to empirical research in this field. She didn’t. ‘It was like the plot from Blood Brothers,’ he told me, referring to the musical about twin brothers separated at birth. Frances Hone's in laws: Frances Hone's grandfather in law is Joseph Hone Frances Hone's grandmother in law is Vera Hone Frances Hone's brother in law is Joseph Hone Frances Hone's brother in law was Camillus Travers Frances Hone's sister in law-by-marriage is Frances Travers According to family members this week, Joseph Hone pleaded with Travers to spare the twins the pain of separation. In truth she was supported by her wealthy aunts and installed in a flat off Bloomsbury Square, an area replete with fashionable writers, and close to Fleet Street, where she penned offbeat dispatches for the Australian press. This week, as I investigated Travers’ life, an untold story of bitterness, alcoholism and rancour emerged that could not be more at odds with the ‘spoonful of sugar’ image that has long been attached to the Mary Poppins story. And from him she had adopted my younger brother Camillus in 1940. 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Perpetually sodden with whisky, and railing that he had been robbed of his family roots for the sake of his mother’s literary pretensions, Camillus remained there until he died two years ago, having somehow lived into his 70s. One of her aunts indignantly declined the offer on her behalf. 4 The Naked Ape has uploaded 2490 photos to Flickr. She was a real artist. When the boys reunited aged 17, they had experienced such vastly different upbringings that their only apparent bond was an over-fondness for drinking. It was understandable, being without a secure family background of her own, that with Camillus she should want to create a real family for herself. ג'וזף הון היה הביוגרף הראשון של המשורר האירי ויליאם בטלר ייטס , … And what she wanted in 1940 was a ready-dressed, oven-ready baby boy: Camillus. He was the grandson of Joseph and Vera Hone, Joseph being W. B. Yeats' first biographer. He spent his last years in a squalid council flat in Weybridge, Surrey, ‘moaning’ about his brother’s good fortune, says his ex-wife, who would visit him to tend to his basic needs. One of Joseph Maunsell Hone's grandchildren was Joseph Hone (1937-2016) the novelist, whilst another was Camillus Hone-Travers, the adopted son of P. L. Travers, whose life was the subject of much attention. But when Camillus was seventeen, his brother Anthony tracked him down. He was a rural bank manager in Australia. This was very tough on Anthony who, with Geraldine, was abandoned once more to my mother’s impoverished parents in the south of Ireland, while I was adopted by better-off friends of my grandfather farther north in Co Kilkenny. Mary Poppins and Pamela Travers — the same little lady of Cherry Tree Lane. In her unending quest for spiritual fulfilment, the latest focus of his mother’s obsession was a Russian named George Gurdjieff, who many years later became a source of fascination for the pop star Kate Bush. Again, it seems likely, given Travers’ moony-eyed adulation for him and his womanising reputation. Pamela was looking for a father for most of her life, and made up for her loss by creating the idealistic father figure of the bank manager Mr Banks in Mary Poppins. Joseph Hone Friday November 29 2013, 12.01am , The Times Pamela Lyndon Travers, author of Mary Poppins , would not, I think, have been best pleased with Emma Thompson’s reincarnation of … Travers was born on 9 August 1899 in Maryborough, Queensland. P.L. He also had a daughter called Kate, now a brilliant academic. She had written the first in the Mary Poppins series in 1934. 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Was his miserable and premature end caused by Travers’ breathtakingly irresponsible act all those years ago? Anthony died in 2005, before his time and largely from the bottle, as indeed Camillus did, from the same alcoholic excess, six years later. But according to their brother Joseph, he defied her and the twins celebrated their reunion with a ‘three-day drinking binge’ in the local pubs. He had been left ‘disappointed and sad’ after learning that he had been taken from his natural family, she said, adding: ‘He would have liked to belong to them because they were artistic and interesting, and as he grew up he didn’t have any brothers, sisters or aunts and uncles, or a Daddy — only her.’. Camillus Hone Travers Age. Registered in Ireland: 523712. Pamela had never told Camillus that he had a twin brother, or about his real parents. He was a twin with his brother Anthony who, with another four children, were all to be abandoned by our parents in London. Camillus Travers was born in Ireland as Camillus Hone. In the author’s eyes, he was a visionary mystic leader; to others, he was an oversexed conman who had fathered seven children by seven different disciples, started life peddling carpets and caviar, and had grown rich on the donations of gullible followers. P. L. Travers adopted a baby boy, Camillus Travers Hone at the age of 40. This was not, however, the start of a new fraternal friendship, for — because of Travers separating them — the twins had experienced such vastly different upbringings that their only apparent bond was an over-fondness for drinking. At the age of 40, Helen adopted a baby boy from Ireland named Camillus Hone. P L Travers, born as Helen Lyndon Goff, was a mysterious and prickly Australian born British novelist, actress and journalist. The scene is a chaotic house in the Dublin suburbs filled with the cries of four little children. Travers never married, but in 1939, when she was 40, she adopted a twin baby boy from Ireland. I don’t think I helped him. ‘Take the two of them,’ he implored her, ‘they’re only small.’ Fatefully, the author refused his entreaties. Spouse (1) So that when Pamela, in her forties, childless, husbandless and loverless and longing for a child, arrived in the nursery and saw the two tiny babies, my harassed grandfather said to her, like a grocer: “Take two, they’re small.”. ‘Pamela Travers saw herself as Mary Poppins and thought she could play Poppins with poor little Camillus,’ the boys’ oldest brother, Joseph Hone, told me damningly. If she had invented Mary Poppins then she would be Mary Poppins in reality. He failed to succeed as a bank manager and was demoted to the position of bank clerk due to his excessive alcoholism. Travers was known for writing the 1933 successful children's book Mary Poppins. He became the great love of her life, but his attentions were often elsewhere, and to her regret he was never hers alone. © Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork. Next month, however, when a film about P L Travers is released, the boys’ part in her story, though pivotal in so many ways, will not be mentioned. But Travers became so besotted with her pot-bellied guru that she urged her adopted son to call him ‘father’. Despite her airy-fairy fantasies, in her books and with her many mystic gurus, there was a steely, self-centred, very controlling woman. Julie Andrews, Walt Disney and P.L. The best food, health, entertainment and lifestyle content from the irishexaminer.com, direct to your inbox every Friday. She found this identikit child through Macnamara, who was friendly with the Hone family — an old dynasty of celebrated artists and writers — and knew that the grandfather, Joseph, and his wife, Vera, were struggling to raise their son’s children. Another son of William Hone (1842-1919) was William Patrick Hone (1886-1976), the father of the poet Leland Bardwell. Camillus’s widow Frances Hone and his children were invited to the London premiere of Saving Mr Banks last week, and introduced to Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson. and it affected the rest of his life’. Yeats, que crió a los sos siete nietos cola so muyer. A los 40 años, Travers adoptó a un neñu pequeñu irlandés al que llamó Camillus Travers Hone, nietu de Joseph Hone, primer biógrafu de W.B.