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43Blyton published several further books featuring the character of Scamp the terrier, following on from The Adventures of Scamp, a novel she had released in 1943 under the pseudonym of Mary Pollock. 51 Scamp Goes on Holiday (1952) and Scamp and Bimbo, Scamp at School, Scamp and Caroline and Scamp Goes to the Zoo (1954) were illustrated by Pierre Probst. She introduced the character of Bom, a stylish toy drummer dressed in a bright red coat and helmet, alongside Noddy in in July 1956. 52 A book series began the same year with Bom the Little Toy Drummer, featuring illustrations by R.

Her books were sold for millions of copies worldwide. Enid Blyton was born Enid Mary Blyton on August 11tth, 1897 in East Dulwich, England to Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton and Thomas Carey Blyton. Enid was the youngest of 3 children. She had 2 brothers, Hanly and Carey. She attended St. Christopher School. Enid showed strong interests in music. The Enid Blyton holiday book. By: Blyton, Enid. Publication date: 19? Publisher: London: Sampson Low, Marston. Collection: cdl; americana.

Paul-Hoye, 53 and followed with Bom and His Magic Drumstick (1957), Bom Goes Adventuring and Bom Goes to Ho Ho Village (1958), Bom and the Clown and Bom and the Rainbow (1959) and Bom Goes to Magic Town (1960). In 1958 she produced two annuals featuring the character, the first of which included twenty short stories, poems and picture strips. 54 Final works.

Many of Blyton's series, including Noddy and The Famous Five, continued to be successful in the 1960s; by 1962, 26 million copies of Noddy had been sold. 1 1 Blyton concluded several of her long-running series in 1963, publishing the last books of The Famous Five ( ) and The Secret Seven ( Fun for the Secret Seven); she also produced three more Brer Rabbit books with the illustrator Grace Lodge: Brer Rabbit Again, Brer Rabbit Book, and Brer Rabbit's a Rascal. In 1962 many of her books were among the first to be published by in paperback, making them more affordable to children. 1After 1963 Blyton's output was generally confined to short stories and books intended for very young readers, such as Learn to Count with Noddy and Learn to Tell Time with Noddy in 1965, and Stories for Bedtime and the Sunshine Picture Story Book collection in 1966. Her declining health and a falling off in readership among older children have been put forward as the principal reasons for this change in trend. 55 Blyton published her last book in the Noddy series, Noddy and the Aeroplane, in February 1964. In May the following year she published May – Mixed Bag, a song book with music written by her nephew Carey, and in August she released her last full-length books, The Man Who Stopped to Help and The Boy Who Came Back.

1 Magazine and newspaper contributionsBlyton cemented her reputation as a children's writer when in 1926 she took over the editing of, a magazine that typically included the re-telling of legends, myths, stories and other articles for children. 7 That same year she was given her own column in Teachers' World, entitled 'From my Window'. Three years later she began contributing a weekly page in the magazine, in which she published letters from her dog Bobs. 1 They proved to be so popular that in 1933 they were published in book form as Letters from Bobs, 56 and sold ten thousand copies in the first week. 1 Her most popular feature was 'Round the Year with Enid Blyton', which consisted of forty-eight articles covering aspects of natural history such as weather, pond life, how to plant a school garden and how to make a bird table. 57 Among Blyton's other nature projects was her monthly 'Country Letter' feature that appeared in The Nature Lover magazine in 1935. 58Sunny Stories was renamed Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories in January 1937, and served as a vehicle for the serialisation of Blyton's books.

Her first Naughty Amelia Jane story, about an anti-heroine based on a doll owned by her daughter Gillian, 59 was published in the magazine. 1 Blyton stopped contributing in 1952, and it closed down the following year, shortly before the appearance of the new fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine written entirely by Blyton. 60 The first edition appeared on 18 March 1953, 61 and the magazine ran until September 1959. 7Noddy made his first appearance in the in 1949, the same year as Blyton's first daily Noddy for the London. 1 It was illustrated by van der Beek until his death in 1953. 1 62 Writing style and techniqueBlyton worked in a wide range of fictional genres, from fairy tales to animal, nature, detective, mystery and circus stories, but she often 'blurred the boundaries' in her books, and encompassed a range of genres even in her short stories. 63 In a 1958 article published in The Author she wrote that there were a 'dozen or more different types of stories for children', and she had tried them all, but her favourites were those with a family at their centre.

64In a letter to the psychologist Peter McKellar, 2 Blyton describes her writing technique:I shut my eyes for a few minutes, with my portable typewriter on my knee – I make my mind a blank and wait – and then, as clearly as I would see real children, my characters stand before me in my mind's eye. The first sentence comes straight into my mind, I don't have to think of it – I don't have to think of anything. 66In another letter to McKellar she describes how in just five days she wrote the 60,000-word book The River of Adventure, the eighth in her, 67 by listening to what she referred to as her 'under-mind', 68 which she contrasted with her 'upper conscious mind'.

69 Blyton was unwilling to conduct any research or planning before beginning work on a new book, which coupled with the lack of variety in her life 3 according to Druce almost inevitably presented the danger that she might unconsciously, and clearly did, plagiarise the books she had read, including her own. 70 Gillian has recalled that her mother 'never knew where her stories came from', but that she used to talk about them 'coming from her 'mind's eye '​', as did. Blyton had 'thought it was made up of every experience she'd ever had, everything she's seen or heard or read, much of which had long disappeared from her conscious memory' but never knew the direction her stories would take. Blyton further explained in her biography that 'If I tried to think out or invent the whole book, I could not do it.

For one thing, it would bore me and for another, it would lack the 'verve' and the extraordinary touches and surprising ideas that flood out from my imagination.' 21Blyton's daily routine varied little over the years. She usually began writing soon after breakfast, with her portable typewriter on her knee and her favourite red Moroccan shawl nearby; she believed that the colour red acted as a 'mental stimulus' for her.

Stopping only for a short lunch break she continued writing until five o'clock, by which time she would usually have produced 6,000–10,000 words. 72A 2000 article in considers Blyton's children to have 'lived in a world shaped by the realities of post-war austerity', enjoying freedom without the political correctness of today, which serves modern readers of Blyton's novels with a form of escapism. 73 Brandon Robshaw of The Independent refers to the Blyton universe as 'crammed with colour and character', 'self-contained and internally consistent', noting that Blyton exemplifies a strong mistrust of adults and figures of authority in her works, creating a world in which children govern. 74 Gillian noted that in her mother's adventure, detective and school stories for older children, 'the hook is the strong storyline with plenty of cliffhangers, a trick she acquired from her years of writing serialised stories for children's magazines.

There is always a strong moral framework in which bravery and loyalty are (eventually) rewarded'. 21 Blyton herself wrote that 'my love of children is the whole foundation of all my work'. 75Victor Watson, Assistant Director of Research at, believes that Blyton's works reveal an 'essential longing and potential associated with childhood', and notes how the opening pages of The Mountain of Adventure present a 'deeply appealing ideal of childhood'.

76 He argues that Blyton's work differs from that of many other authors in its approach, describing the narrative of The Famous Five series for instance as 'like a powerful spotlight, it seeks to illuminate, to explain, to demystify. It takes its readers on a roller-coaster story in which the darkness is always banished; everything puzzling, arbitrary, evocative is either dismissed or explained'. Watson further notes how Blyton often used minimalist visual descriptions and introduced a few careless phrases such as 'gleamed enchantingly' to appeal to her young readers. 77From the mid-1950s rumours began to circulate that Blyton had not written all the books attributed to her, a charge she found particularly distressing. She published an appeal in her magazine asking children to let her know if they heard such stories, and after one mother informed her that she had attended a parents' meeting at her daughter's school during which a young librarian had repeated the allegation, 78 Blyton decided in 1955 to begin legal proceedings. 1 The librarian was eventually forced to make a public apology in open court early the following year, but the rumours that Blyton operated 'a 'company' of ghost writers' persisted, as some found it difficult to believe that one woman working alone could produce such a volume of work. 79 Charitable workBlyton felt a responsibility to provide her readers with a positive moral framework, and she encouraged them to support worthy causes.

80 Her view, expressed in a 1957 article, was that children should help animals and other children rather than adults:children are not interested in helping adults; indeed, they think that adults themselves should tackle adult needs. But they are intensely interested in animals and other children and feel compassion for the blind boys and girls, and for the spastics who are unable to walk or talk. 81Blyton and the members of the children's clubs she promoted via her magazines raised a great deal of money for various charities; according to Blyton, membership of her clubs meant 'working for others, for no reward'. The largest of the clubs she was involved with was the Busy Bees, the junior section of the, which Blyton had actively supported since 1933. The club had been set up by in 1934, 82 and after Blyton publicised its existence in the Enid Blyton Magazine it attracted 100,000 members in three years. 83 Such was Blyton's popularity among children that after she became Queen Bee in 1952 more than 20,000 additional members were recruited in her first year in office.

82 The Enid Blyton Magazine Club was formed in 1953. 1 Its primary object was to raise funds to help those children with who attended a centre in, in Chelsea, London, by furnishing an on-site hostel among other things. 84The Famous Five series gathered such a following that readers asked Blyton if they might form a fan club. She agreed, on condition that it serve a useful purpose, and suggested that it could raise funds for the Shaftesbury Society Babies' Home 4 in Beaconsfield, on whose committee she had served since 1948. 86 The club was established in 1952, and provided funds for equipping a Famous Five Ward at the home, a, sun room, summer house, playground, birthday and Christmas celebrations, and visits to the pantomime. 85 By the late 1950s Blyton's clubs had a membership of 500,000, and raised £35,000 in the six years of the Enid Blyton Magazine's run.

4By 1974 the Famous Five Club had a membership of 220,000, and was growing at the rate of 6000 new members a year. 87 5 The Beaconsfield home it was set up to support closed in 1967, but the club continued to raise funds for other paediatric charities, including an Enid Blyton bed at and a mini-bus for disabled children at. 89 Jigsaw puzzles and gamesBlyton capitalised upon her commercial success as an author by negotiating agreements with jigsaw puzzle and games manufacturers from the late 1940s onwards; by the early 1960s some 146 different companies were involved in merchandising Noddy alone. 90 In 1948 released four jigsaw puzzles featuring her characters, and the first Enid Blyton board game appeared, Journey Through Fairyland, created by BGL.

The first card game, Faraway Tree, appeared from Pepys in 1950. In 1954 Bestime released the first four jigsaw puzzles of the Secret Seven, and the following year a Secret Seven card game appeared. 46Bestime released the Little Noddy Car Game in 1953 and the Little Noddy Leap Frog Game in 1955, and in 1956 American manufacturer released Little Noddy's Taxi Game, a board game which features Noddy driving about town, picking up various characters. 91 Bestime released its Plywood Noddy Jigsaws series in 1957 and a Noddy jigsaw series featuring cards appeared from 1963, with illustrations by Robert Lee. Arrow Games became the chief producer of Noddy jigsaws in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 90 Whitman manufactured four new Secret Seven jigsaw puzzles in 1975, and produced four new Malory Towers ones two years later. 46 In 1979 the company released a Famous Five adventure board game, Famous Five Kirrin Island Treasure.

92 wrote eight Famous Five adventure game books, published by Hodder & Stoughton in the 1980s. The first adventure game book of the series, The Wreckers' Tower Game, was published in October 1984. 93 Personal life.(1944–1950).(1949–1959).(1938–1942).(1942–1963).(1939–1951).(1943–1961).(1946–1951).(1942–1964).(1948–1950).(1940–1952).(1949–1963).(1938–1953).(1949–1963).(1941–1945).(1937–2000).(1997).Watch and listen to BBC archive programmes about Enid Blyton.Enid Blyton letters from the BBC archive.Enid Blyton Collection.Newsreel footage of Enid Blyton at home with her family, 1946.The Enid Blyton Collection at Seven Stories.Seven Stories' Enid Blyton BlogExternal links. Greenfield, George (1998), Enid Blyton, Sutton Publishing,. Mullan, Bob (1987), The Enid Blyton Story, Boxtree,. Ray, Sheila G. (1982), The Blyton Phenomenon, Andre Deutsch,.

Smallwood, Imogen (1989), A Childhood at Green Hedges: A Fragment of Autobiography by Enid Blyton's Daughter, Methuen Young Books,. Stewart, Brian; Summerfield, Tony (1998), The Enid Blyton Dossier, Hawk Books,. Summerfield, Tony; Wright, Norman (1995), Sunny Stories 1942–1953: An Index, Norman Wright. Willey, Mason (1993), Enid Blyton: A Bibliography of First Editions and Other Collectable Books: with Cross-referenced Publishers, Illustrators and Themes, Willey,Further reading. ^ In 1960 alone, eleven Noddy books were published, including the strip books Noddy and the Runaway Wheel, Noddy's Bag of Money, and Noddy's Car Gets into Trouble. 1. ^ McKellar had written to Blyton in February 1953 asking for the imagery techniques she employed in her writing, for a research project he had undertaken.

The results of his investigation were published in Imagination and Thinking (1957). 65. ^ In her leisure time Blyton led the life of a typical suburban housewife, gardening, and playing golf or bridge. She rarely left England, preferring to holiday by the English coast, almost invariably in Dorset, 70 where she and her husband took over the lease of an 18-hole golf course at in 1951.

71. ^ Despite its name, the society provided accommodation for pre-school infants in need of special care. 85. ^ The Famous Five Club was run by the publisher of Blyton's Famous Five series.

88. ^ Blyton submitted her first proposal to the BBC in 1936. 130.

^ The Comic Strip's Five Go Mad in Dorset contains the first occurrence of a phrase wrongly attributed to Blyton, 'lashings of ginger beer'. 126Notes References.See also, National Centre for Children's Books holds the largest public collection of Blyton's papers and typescripts. 160 The collection contains a significant number of Blyton's typescripts, including the previously unpublished novel, Mr Tumpy's Caravan, as well as personal papers and diaries. 161 The purchase of the material in 2010 was made possible by special funding from the, the, and two private donations. 162 PapersIn October 2014 it was announced that a deal had been signed with publishers for 'The Faraway Tree' series to be adapted into a live action film by director ’ production company. Marlene Johnson, head of children’s books at Hachette, said: 'Enid Blyton was a passionate advocate of children’s storytelling, and The Magic Faraway Tree is a fantastic example of her creative imagination.'

159, a group of British comedians, produced two parodies of the Famous Five for television:, broadcast in 1982, 7 and Five Go Mad on Mescalin, broadcast the following year. 1 A third in the series, Five Go to Rehab, was broadcast on in 2012.

158There have also been several film and television adaptations of the Famous Five: by the in and, in, and in. 7 The series was also adapted for the German film, directed by Mike Marzuk and released in 2011. 157In 1954 Blyton adapted Noddy for the stage, producing the Noddy in Toyland pantomime in just two or three weeks. The production was staged at the 2660-seat in, London at Christmas. 153 Its popularity resulted in the show running during the Christmas season for five or six years. 154 Blyton was delighted with its reception by children in the audience, and attended the theatre three or four times a week. 155 since 1954 include one in the 1970s narrated.

156 In 1955 a stage play based on the Famous Five was produced, and in January 1997 the embarked on a six-month tour of the UK with The Famous Five Musical, to commemorate Blyton's centenary. On 21 November 1998 The Secret Seven Save the World was first performed at the in Cardiff. 1 Stage, film and TV adaptationsIn 2010, the publisher of the Famous Five series, announced its intention to update the language used in the books, of which it sold more than half a million copies a year. The changes, which Hodder described as 'subtle', mainly affect the dialogue rather than the narrative. For instance, 'school tunic' becomes 'uniform', 'mother and father' becomes 'mum and dad', 152 'bathing' is replaced by 'swimming', and 'jersey' by 'jumper'. 150 Some commentators see the changes as necessary to encourage modern readers, 152 whereas others regard them as unnecessary and patronising. 150Five on a Hike Together, reflecting the idea that girls need not have long hair to be considered feminine or normal.

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151To address criticisms levelled at Blyton's work some later editions have been altered to reflect more liberal attitudes towards issues such as race, gender and the treatment of children; modern reprints of the Noddy series substitute teddy bears or goblins for golliwogs for instance. 148 The golliwogs who steal Noddy's car and dump him naked in the Dark Wood in Here Comes Noddy Again are replaced by goblins in the 1986 revision, who strip Noddy only of his shoes and hat and return at the end of the story to apologise. 149 Revisions to later editions.

Blyton's depictions of boys and girls are considered by many critics to be sexist. 145 146 In a Guardian article published in 2005 Lucy Mangan proposed that The Famous Five series depicts a power struggle between Julian, Dick and George (Georgina), in which the female characters either act like boys or are talked down to, as when Dick lectures George: 'it's really time you gave up thinking you're as good as a boy'. 147Accusations of xenophobia were also made. As George Greenfield observed, 'Enid was very much part of that between-the-wars middle class which believed that foreigners were untrustworthy or funny or sometimes both'.

142 The publisher conducted an internal assessment of Blyton's The Mystery That Never Was, submitted to them at the height of her fame in 1960. The review was carried out by the author and books editor, in whose view 'There is a faint but unattractive touch of old-fashioned xenophobia in the author's attitude to the thieves; they are 'foreign'.

And this seems to be regarded as sufficient to explain their criminality.' Macmillan rejected the manuscript, 143 but it was published by in 1961, 144 and then again in 1965 and 1983. 143Accusations of racism in Blyton's books were first made by in a article published in 1966, in which she was critical of Blyton's The Little Black Doll, published a few months earlier. Sambo, the black doll of the title, is hated by his owner and the other toys owing to his 'ugly black face', and runs away. A shower of rain washes his face clean, after which he is welcomed back home with his now pink face.

139 also considers the Noddy books to be 'deeply racist' because of the blonde children and the black. 140 In Blyton's 1944 novel, a black servant named Jo-Jo is depicted as an enemy of the British. Although he is portrayed as very intelligent, Jo-Jo is a spy for the and is particularly cruel to the children. 141 Racism, xenophobia and sexismThe author Nicholas Tucker notes that it was common to see Blyton cited as people's favourite or least favourite author according to their age, and argues that her books create an 'encapsulated world for young readers that simply dissolves with age, leaving behind only memories of excitement and strong identification'.

136 Fred Inglis considers Blyton's books to be technically easy to read, but to also be 'emotionally and cognitively easy'. He mentions that the psychologist Michael Woods believed that Blyton was different from many other older authors writing for children in that she seemed untroubled by presenting them with a world that differed from reality. Woods surmised that Blyton 'was a child, she thought as a child, and wrote as a child. The basic feeling is essentially pre-adolescent.

Enid Blyton has no moral dilemmas. Inevitably Enid Blyton was labelled by rumour a child-hater. If true, such a fact should come as no surprise to us, for as a child herself all other children can be nothing but rivals for her.' 137 Inglis argues though that Blyton was clearly devoted to children and put an enormous amount of energy into her work, with a powerful belief in 'representing the crude moral diagrams and garish fantasies of a readership'.

137 Blyton's daughter Imogen has stated that she 'loved a relationship with children through her books', but real children were an ­intrusion, and there was no room for intruders in the world that Blyton occupied through her writing. 138Some librarians felt that Blyton's restricted use of language, a conscious product of her teaching background, was prejudicial to an appreciation of more literary qualities. In a scathing article published in Encounter in 1958, remarked that it was 'hard to see how a diet of Miss Blyton could help with the or even with the Cambridge English ', 7 but reserved his harshest criticism for Blyton's Noddy, describing him as an 'unnaturally priggish. Witless, spiritless, snivelling, sneaking doll.' 55 SimplicityAlthough Blyton's works have been banned from more public libraries than those of any other author, there is no evidence that the popularity of her books ever suffered, and she remains very widely read.

135 Although some criticised her in the 1950s for the volume of work she produced, Blyton astutely capitalised on being considered a more 'savoury' English alternative to what was seen by contemporaries as an invasion by American culture in the form of Disney and comics. 13From the 1930s to the 1950s the BBC operated a de facto ban on dramatising Blyton's books for radio, considering her to be a 'second-rater' whose work was without literary merit. 129 130 6 The children's literary critic likened Blyton's books to 'slow poison', 7 and Jean E. Sutcliffe of the BBC's schools broadcast department wrote of Blyton's ability to churn out 'mediocre material', noting that 'her capacity to do so, amounts to genius. Anyone else would have died of boredom long ago'.

131, Children's Laureate from 2007 until 2009, wrote that 'I find myself flinching at occasional bursts of snobbery and the assumed level of privilege of the children and families in the books.' 132 The children's author presented an overview of the concerns about Blyton's work and responses to them on in November 2008, in which she noted the 'drip, drip, drip of disapproval' associated with the books. 133 Blyton's response to her critics was that she was uninterested in the views of anyone over the age of 12, claiming that half the attacks on her work were motivated by jealousy and the rest came from 'stupid people who don't know what they're talking about because they've never read any of my books'. 134Blyton's range of plots and settings has been described as limited and continually recycled. 70 Responding to claims that her moral views were 'dependably predictable', 127 Blyton commented that 'most of you could write down perfectly correctly all the things that I believe in and stand for – you have found them in my books, and a writer's books are always a faithful reflection of himself'.

128 Many of her books were critically assessed by teachers and librarians, deemed unfit for children to read, and removed from syllabuses and public libraries. 7 Critical backlashNovelists influenced by Blyton include the crime writer Peter Hunt's A Step off the Path (1985) is also influenced by the Famous Five, and the St. Clare's and Malory Towers series provided the inspiration for 's Double Act (1996) and 's Egerton Hall trilogy (1990–92) respectively.

126In a 1982 survey of 10,000 eleven-year-old children Blyton was voted their most popular writer. 1 She is the world's fourth most translated author, behind,. 118 From 2000 to 2010, Blyton was listed as a Top Ten author, selling almost 8 million copies (worth £31.2 million) in the UK alone. 119 In 2003 was voted 66 in the BBC's.

36 In the 2008 Costa Book Awards, Blyton was voted Britain's best-loved author. 120 121 Her books continue to be very popular among children in nations such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malta, New Zealand, and Australia, and around the world. 122 They have also seen a surge of popularity in China, where they are 'big with every generation'. 73 In March 2004 Chorion and the Chinese publisher Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press negotiated an agreement over the Noddy franchise, which included bringing the character to an animated series on television, with an expected audience of a further 95 million children under the age of five. 123 124 Chorion spent around £10 million digitising Noddy, and as of 2002 had made television agreements with at least 11 countries worldwide. 125Blyton's granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood, wrote a new Noddy book to celebrate the character's 60th birthday, 46 years after the last book was published; Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle (2009) was illustrated by Robert Tyndall.

114 In February 2011, the manuscript of a previously unknown Blyton novel, Mr Tumpy's Caravan, was discovered by the archivist at, National Centre for Children's Books in a collection of papers belonging to Blyton's daughter Gillian, purchased by in 2010 following her death. 115 116 It was initially thought to belong to a comic strip collection of the same name published in 1949, but it appears to be unrelated and is believed to be something written in the 1930s, which had been rejected by a publisher. Rundll32 exe windows 7.

116 117The London-based entertainment and retail company Trocadero plc purchased Blyton's Darrell Waters Ltd in 1995 for £14.6 million and established a subsidiary, Enid Blyton Ltd, to handle all intellectual properties, character brands and media in Blyton's works. 1 7 The group changed its name to in 1998, but after financial difficulties in 2012 sold its assets. Acquired from Chorion world rights in the Blyton estate in March 2013, including The Famous Five series 112 but excluding the rights to Noddy, which had been sold to (formerly Classic Media, now a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation) 113 in 2012.The first Enid Blyton Day was held at on 6 March 1993, and in October 1996 the Enid Blyton award, The Enid, was given to those who have made outstanding contributions towards children. 1 The was formed in early 1995, to provide 'a focal point for collectors and enthusiasts of Enid Blyton' through its thrice-annual Enid Blyton Society Journal, its annual Enid Blyton Day, and its website. 111 On 16 December 1996 broadcast a documentary about Blyton, Secret Lives.

To celebrate her centenary in 1997 exhibitions were put on at the London Toy & Model Museum (now closed), and Bromley Library, and on 9 September the issued centenary stamps. 1The Enid Blyton Trust for Children was established in 1982 with Imogen as its first chairman, 110 and in 1985 it established the National Library for the Handicapped Child. 7 Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine began publication in September 1985, and on 14 October 1992 the BBC began publishing Noddy Magazine and released the Noddy CD-Rom in October 1996. 1Since her death and the publication of her daughter Imogen's 1989 autobiography, A Childhood at Green Hedges, Blyton has emerged as an emotionally immature, unstable and often malicious figure. 25 Imogen considered her mother to be 'arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct. As a child, I viewed her as a rather strict authority. As an adult I pitied her.'

109 Blyton's eldest daughter Gillian remembered her rather differently however, as 'a fair and loving mother, and a fascinating companion'. 109During the months following her husband's death Blyton became increasingly ill, and moved into a nursing home three months before her death. She died at the Greenways Nursing Home, London, on 28 November 1968, aged 71. A memorial service was held at, 1 and she was cremated at, where her ashes remain.

Blyton's home, Green Hedges, was auctioned on 26 May 1971 and demolished in 1973; 106 the site is now occupied by houses and a street named Blyton Close. An commemorates Blyton at Hook Road in, where she lived from 1920 to 1924. 107 In 2014 a plaque recording her time as a Beaconsfield resident from 1938 until her death in 1968 was unveiled in the town hall gardens, next to small iron figures of Noddy and Big Ears.

Blue plaque on Blyton's childhood home in Ondine Street,.Death and legacyThe story of Blyton's life was dramatised in a BBC film entitled, which aired in the United Kingdom on on 16 November 2009. 105, who played the title role, described Blyton as 'a complete workaholic, an achievement junkie and an extremely canny businesswoman' who 'knew how to brand herself, right down to the famous signature'. 25Blyton's health began to deteriorate in 1957, when during a round of golf she started to complain of feeling faint and breathless, 102 and by 1960 she was displaying signs of in her mid-sixties. 103 Blyton's situation was worsened by her husband's declining health throughout the 1960s; he suffered from severe in his neck and hips, deafness, and became increasingly ill-tempered and erratic until his death on 15 September 1967. 99 104Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the Register Office on 20 October 1943. She changed the surname of her daughters to Darrell Waters 101 and publicly embraced her new role as a happily married and devoted doctor's wife.

7 After discovering she was pregnant in the spring of 1945, Blyton miscarried five months later, following a fall from a ladder. The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and it would also have been the son for which both of them longed. 95Blyton's first daughter, was born on 15 July 1931, and after a miscarriage in 1934, 95 she gave birth a second daughter, Imogen, on 27 October 1935. 1 In 1938 Blyton and her family moved to a house in, which was named by Blyton's readers following a competition in her magazine. By the mid-1930s, Pollock – possibly due to the trauma he had suffered during World War I being revived through his meetings as a publisher with – withdrew increasingly from public life and became a secret alcoholic. 96 With the outbreak of the Second World War, Pollock became involved in the.

96 He started a relationship with a budding young writer, whom he arranged to work as his secretary at Denbies, where he was stationed. 97 Blyton's marriage to Pollock became troubled, and according to Crowe's memoir, Blyton began a series of affairs, 97 including a lesbian affair with one of the children's nannies. 97 98 In 1941 Blyton met Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon with whom she began a relationship. 99 Pollock discovered the affair, and threatened to bring divorce proceedings against her. After much discussion with Blyton, it was ultimately agreed that Blyton would present the petition against him. 100 According to Crowe's memoir, Blyton promised that if he admitted to infidelity she would allow him parental access to their daughters; but after the divorce Pollock was forbidden to contact them, and Blyton ensured he was unable to find work in publishing.

Pollock, having married Crowe on 26 October 1943, eventually resumed his heavy drinking and was forced to petition for bankruptcy in 1950. 9794 7 (called Peterswood in her books) in 1929. In 1926, and then to Old Thatch in They initially lived in a flat in Chelsea before moving to Elfin Cottage in 1.

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Download EBOOK The Magic Faraway Tree PDF for freeCategory:The author of the book:Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCXThe size of the: 418 KBLanguage: EnglishISBN-13: 503Edition: Egmont Books LtdDate of issue: 9 October 2014Description of the book 'The Magic Faraway Tree':Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'Unsuitable for children ages 0-3' warning logo.This is a deluxe hardback edition of The Magical Faraway Tree for the 75th anniversary. When Joe, Beth and Frannie climb up to the top of the Faraway Tree, they meet Silky, Moon-Face and the Saucepan Man. Their new friends show them an exciting secret - how to visit lots of strange and magical lands, where they have many thrilling adventures. Whether they're exploring the Land of Do-As-You-Please to the Land of Tempers, readers will delight in beautiful, full-colour illustrations from the fantastic Mark Beech PDF. This stunning edition of The Magic Faraway Tree was highly commended in the 2014 Junior Design Awards and shortlisted in the Prima Baby Awards. 'This book deserves to be on every child's bookshelf.'

(Junior Design Awards). Enid Blyton is one of the best-loved children's authors with over 700 titles published and 500 million copies sold worldwide. She is perhaps best know for The Famous Five. Aged 27, Enid married Hugh Pollock and moved to London. They had two children, and soon afterwards Enid wrote her first novel, The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair. Enid divorced Hugh after almost 20 years of marriage ePub, and married Kenneth Waters in 1943.Throughout the 40s and 50s, Enid wrote books at a colossal pace: adventure stories, mysteries, magical stories, farming stories, stories for younger children, and best-selling series like The Magic Faraway Tree, which has thrilled children everywhere with Joe, Beth and Frannie's magical adventures.

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