After visiting Fontainebleau in France Travers met George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, an occultist, who she became a "disciple" of. Around the same time she was taught by Carl Gustav Jung in Switzerland. In 1931, she moved with her friend Madge Burnand from their rented flat in London to a thatched cottage in Sussex. There, in the winter of 1933, she began to write "Mary Poppins". During the 1930s Travers reviewed drama for "The New English Weekly" and published the book "Moscow Excursion" (1934). "Mary Poppins" was published that year to great success. Many sequels followed.