![]() ![]() She wrote a regular column in the Christchurch Sun's 'Women's World' section and freelance articles in the Shakespearean Quarterly, Vision, and The Green Room. In Christchurch, New Zealand, Travers's career turned towards journalism. She rejoined the Allan Wilkie Company and travelled Australia and New Zealand. It was at this time that the more sophisticated 'Pamela Travers' emerged into public view. This was followed by a tour of New South Wales with a repertory company. In March 1921 her stage career began when Allan Wilkie offered her a part in The Merry Wives of Windsor. ![]() After leaving school Travers worked as a cashier for the Australian Gas and Light Company at her relatives' insistence. She attended the Bowral branch of the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School and, from 1912, Normanhurst Boarding School for Girls at Ashfield where her love of writing and the stage evolved. The family moved to Bowral, New South Wales, and Travers had to take on adult responsibilities as the oldest child. In 1907 Travers's life changed forever with the death of her lyrical, melancholy father whose first name she adopted as her pseudonym for a lifetime of writing. Travers had a difficult childhood with an alcoholic father and periodic separations. ![]() The eldest of three children, Travers grew up in a Celtic atmosphere with a succession of Irish nannies. Travers' was the daughter of Travers Robert Goff, an English bank manager with Irish connections, and his Scots-Irish wife, Margaret Agnes, nee Morehead. ![]()
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