The series is believed to be semi-autobiographical, and the name " Darrell Rivers " is clearly drawn from Blyton's second husband's name, Kenneth Darrell Waters.

Lawson appeared alongside Academy Award nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter in the BBC Four movie based on the life of Enid Blyton, playing Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who becomes Blyton's second husband.

Blyton's literary output was of an estimated 800 books over roughly 40 years.

Blyton's home, Green Hedges, was sold in 1971 and demolished in 1973.

It was frequently reported ( in the 1950s and also from the 1980s onwards ) that various children's libraries removed some of Blyton's works from the shelves.

Jenks is based on a real character from Blyton's home town who was promoted through the ranks of the police just as was his fictional counterpart.

On 17 November 2008, it was announced that Enid Blyton's granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood, is to write a new Noddy book to celebrate the character's 60th birthday.

The show was very well received among critics, audiences and even Enid Blyton's daughter Gillian Baverstock.

* Theophilus Goon was the bumbling, bad-tempered local policeman in Enid Blyton's Five Find-Outers series of children's mystery novels.

The characters tend to be stereotypes and are very similar to the set of characters in Blyton's other boarding school series, Malory Towers.

His on-screen acting career ranged from leading roles in the BBC's adaptation of E. Nesbit's novel The Phoenix and the Carpet and ITV's adaptations of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels ( as Dick ) to a very minor walk-on part in the James Bond movie Octopussy.

Enid Blyton's status as a bestselling author is in spite of disapproval of her works from various perspectives, which has led to altered reprints of the books and withdrawals or “ bans ” from libraries.

In the 1990s, Chorion, the owners of Blyton's works, edited her books to remove passages that were deemed racist or sexist.

Some librarians certainly at times felt that Blyton's restricted use of language, a conscious product of her teaching background, militated against appreciation of more literary qualities.

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

In the first episode, Five Go Mad in Dorset ( 1982 ), which spoofed Enid Blyton's The Famous Five stories, he makes a surprise appearance as Uncle Quentin ; deliberately sending up his staid image, he most memorably told The Famous Five, " Your Aunt Fanny is an unrelenting nymphomaniac – and I am a screaming homosexual ".

The children ’ s author Anne Fine presented an overview of the concerns about Blyton's work and responses to them on BBC Radio 4 in November 2008, in which she noted the “ drip, drip, drip of disapproval ” associated with the books.

Called Aunt Fanny by Julian, Dick and Anne, she is married to Uncle Quentin, and is, through most of Blyton's Famous Five novels, the principal maternal figure in the lives of the children.

Eventually they moved to a house in Beaconsfield, named Green Hedges by Blyton's readers following a competition in Sunny Stories.

The British Journal of Education in 1955 carried a piece by Janice Dohn, an American children's librarian, considering Blyton's writing together with authors of formula fiction, and making negative comments about Blyton's devices and tone.

In 2008 Chorion, who now own the rights to Blyton's books and characters, published through Hodder's Children's Books the Famous Five's Survival Guide, a book that combines survival tips and facts with a story in which the grown-up characters revisit a case they failed to solve in their childhood.

Generally, the company produced more networked children's programmes than adult programmes, scoring a particularly strong seller internationally with an adaptation of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five.

Enid Blyton's Naughtiest Girl series is set in a fictional school, Whyteleafe, that shares many similarities with Summerhill.

Enid Blyton's novel The Secret of Killimooin, set in the fictional but probably eastern European country of Baronia, features a blind goatherd called Beowald, who is so in tune with his environment that he can roam the mountains using his other senses, apparently unhindered by his lack of sight.

In this final sequel, a compilation of stories about the Wishing Chair from other books ( The Adventures of the Wishing Chair, Enid Blyton's Omnibus and the Enid Blyton Annuals ), More Wishing Chair Stories Mollie and Peter are home for the half-term holiday and Chinky and the Wishing-Chair are ready to fly away with them to magical lands.

In May 2002, the UK's Channel Five announced that it had bought 100 episodes of a new CGI-animated TV series based on Enid Blyton's Noddy, with the show " Make Way For Noddy " airing in September of that year.

First, with its bullion robbers and the indomitable amateur boy who cracks the code, as it were, the book sends up the junior thriller ; young Bond with his blacked and infra-red camera and judo principles (" Don't go against the enemy, go with him ") is a remote cousin of Miss Blyton's water-pistol-carrying kids.

The Wishing-Chair is a series of two novels by the English author Enid Blyton, and a third book published in 2000 compiled from Blyton's short stories.

In the first of Enid Blyton's Famous Five novels, the eponymous children express disappointment that their holiday will not, as usual, be spent at Polzeath.

One of Blyton's most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for early years readers.

Chorion Limited of London now owns and handles the intellectual properties and character brands of Blyton's Noddy and the well known series the Famous Five.

Blyton's husband died in 1967.

This gave rise to the first rumour of a New Zealand " library ban " on Blyton's books, a recurrent press canard.

* Enid Blyton's The Island of Adventure features the bird's extinction, sending the protagonist on a failed search for what he believes is a lost colony of the species.

* Rumours of a library ban on Enid Blyton's books in New Zealand.

In 2009 six more books were added to the series by author Pamela Cox, who has also made additions to Enid Blyton's St Clare's series.

An early supporter of the SAM, Enigma published SAM versions of Defenders of the Earth, Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters, Five on a Treasure Island ( based on Enid Blyton's Famous Five ), Klax, Pipe Mania and SAM originals SAM Strikes Out ( a Jet Set Willy influenced platformer ), Futureball ( a Speedball influenced futuristic sporting title ) and Sphera.

Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Through Nero, Agrippina was the paternal great-grandmother of Claudia Augusta, ( Nero's only child through his second marriage to Poppaea Sabina ).

The father of Julia the Elder was the Emperor Augustus, and Julia was his only natural child from his second marriage to Scribonia, who had close blood relations with Pompey the Great and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Antonia Minor was a daughter to Octavia the Younger by her second marriage to triumvir Mark Antony, and Octavia was the second eldest sister and full-blooded sister of Augustus.

Germanicus ’ father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius ’ s younger brother and Augustus ’ s stepson.

After her thirteenth birthday in 28, Tiberius arranged for Agrippina to marry her paternal second cousin Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and ordered the marriage to be celebrated in Rome.

In the months leading up to her marriage to Claudius, Agrippina's maternal second cousin, the praetor Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus, was betrothed to Claudius ’ daughter Claudia Octavia.

She also was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia, Claudius ' daughter and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina, and to the young Claudia Octavia and Britannicus, Claudius ' children with Valeria Messalina.

Philip, however, declined the contest, and formed a second alliance with Alexander by giving him his daughter ( Alexander I's niece ) Cleopatra in marriage ( 336 BC ).

The need for a male heir led him to contract a second marriage to Yolande de Dreux on 1 November 1285.

He had spent the evening at Edinburgh Castle celebrating his second marriage and overseeing a meeting with royal advisors.

The marriage of Alfonso and Urraca was declared null by the Pope, as they were second cousins, in 1110, but he ignored the papal nuncio and clung to his liaison with Urraca until 1114.

Because of some favoritism he showed towards his second wife, the last years of his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future Peter IV.

He had further descendants from his second and third marriage.

After Eschiva's death in October 1197 he married Isabella, the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem by his second marriage, and became King of Jerusalem in right of his wife and crowned at Acre in January 1198.

He was the third of the four children of farmer Hugh Fleming ( 1816 – 1888 ) from his second marriage to Grace Stirling Morton ( 1848 – 1928 ), the daughter of a neighbouring farmer.

He was 59 at the time of his second marriage, and died when Alexander ( known as Alec ) was seven.

Guiler remained in New York City and was unaware of Nin's second marriage until after her death in 1977, though biographer Deirdre Bair alleges that Guiler knew what was happening while Nin was in California, but consciously " chose not to know ".

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.