Mary Poppins (character) Mary Poppins (character) Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers's "Mary Poppins" books and all of their adaptations. A magical English nanny, she blows in on the East Wind and arrives at the Banks home at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, where she is given charge of the Banks children and teaches them valuable lessons with a magical touch. Travers gives Poppins the accent and vocabulary of a real London nanny: cockney base notes overlaid with a strangled gentility. Julie Andrews, who played the character in the 1964 film adaptation, won the
Mary Poppins Returns before the bowl breaks apart again, sending them back to the real world. Back in the nursery, Mary tells the children that their mother lives on in their memories ("The Place Where Lost Things Go"). The next day, Mary, Jack and the children go to visit Topsy, Mary's eccentric cousin, to see if she can fix the bowl ("Turning Turtle"). Lost on their way home, Mary, John, Annabel and Georgie run into Jack, who, alongside other lamplighters, leads them on their way home ("Trip a Little Light Fantastic"). Development on a sequel to "Mary Poppins" had long been gestating in