Enid Mary Blyton ( 11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968 ) was a British children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.

The writer Enid Blyton ( 1897 – 1968 ) was governess to a Surbiton family for four years from 1920, at a house called ' Southernhay ', also on the Hook Road.

The Secret Seven also appeared in seven short stories by Blyton, including a mini-novella explaining how the Secret Seven was formed.

The characters are very similar to the set of characters in the St. Clare's series, which Blyton also wrote.

It is also widely supposed that Blyton based the creation on the famous Scottish boarding school St Leonards School in St Andrews, which is, of course, the heroine ’ s University destination.

Although these books also bear the author's name Enid Blyton, they are not translations of any English books, and some serious fans question their authenticity and their right to be counted as ' canon '.

The Saucepan Man also appears in another lesser known Blyton book, Brownie Tales, helping the travellers out of one of their many bouts of trouble on their journey.

The Five Find-Outers, also known as the Enid Blyton Mystery Series and Five Find-Outers and Dog, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961.

McGown also suggests a similarity between The Tomorrow People and the children's fantasy fiction of Enid Blyton.

* The incidental music for the serial was composed by Carey Blyton, who would also contribute music for Death to the Daleks ( 1974 ) and Revenge of the Cybermen ( 1975 ).

Jennyfer Jewell ( Ellie ) and Ryan Runciman ( Ryan ) had worked on The Enid Blyton Adventure Series in 1996 and Jewell had also starred in The Enid Blyton Secret Series in 1997 alongside Daniel James ( Zoot ).

Blyton also wrote another ( unrelated ) book set in a circus, Come to the Circus!

Blyton wrote hundreds of other books for young and older children: novels, story collections and some non-fiction.

One notable example would be Enid Blyton, who wrote several juvenile detective series, often featuring seemingly impossible crimes that her young amateur detectives set out to solve.

Enid Blyton wrote The Land of Far Beyond as a children's version of Pilgrim's Progress.

They appear in one of several juvenile detective series Blyton wrote.

The author who wrote these books is Rosemarie von Schach who uses several pseudonyms-such as Enid Blyton and Claudia Jones.

Enid Blyton wrote a number of children's books with pixies as featured characters.

Blyton wrote two other series about life at a boarding school: Malory Towers and the Naughtiest Girl series.

Although the publication dates span a decade, Blyton reportedly wrote each of the novels in less than a week.

Originally, the series was supposed to end after this episode, but under the great demand of dedicated fans, Blyton wrote two more episodes:

The British children's author Enid Blyton wrote three books in the Circus Series.

There were numerous critical comments about Blyton: claiming that her vocabulary was too limited, that she presented too rosy a view of the world, even suggestions that little Noddy's relationship with Big Ears was " suspect ", that he was a poor role model for boys because he sometimes wept when frustrated and the laws were politically incorrect.

On 28 August 1924 Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO ( 1888 – 1971 ), editor of the book department in the publishing firm of George Newnes, which published two of her books that year.

Bedtime Stories are some other books by Enid Blyton.

Blyton books are generally split into three types.

Blyton only intended to write about 6 to 8 books in the series but, owing to their high sales and immense commercial success, she went on to write 21 full-length Famous Five novels.

The Emil books had an important role in popularising the sub-genre of " Children Detectives ", later taken up by other writers of children's books such as Enid Blyton.

* List of books by Enid Blyton

St. Clare's is a series of six books written by English children's author Enid Blyton about a boarding school of that name.

The six books by Enid Blyton are:

Recently, Enid Blyton Limited have copyrighted three further books in the series, written by Pamela Cox:

Sales of Noddy books are large, with an estimated 600, 000 annual sales in France alone, and growing popularity in India, a large market for Blyton books.

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.

Luckham was a familiar face as a character actor in the 1970s: he appeared the 1978 TV series based on The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton, as the evil psychic Edward Drexel in the 1979 supernatural thriller series The Omega Factor, and as the equitable Chair of the school board of Bamfylde in the 1980 Andrew Davies adaptation of To Serve Them All My Days.

* Gobbo, a goblin character in the Noddy books by Enid Blyton

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943, and she subsequently changed the surname of her two daughters to Darrell Waters.

Afflicted by Alzheimer's disease, Blyton was moved into a nursing home three months before her death ; she died at the Greenways Nursing Home, London, on 28 November 1968, aged 71 years and was cremated at the Golders Green Crematorium where her ashes remain.

Famous people born there include: the author, Enid Blyton in 1897 ; the first compiler of the London A-Z, Phyllis Pearsall in East Dulwich in 1906, she went on to live in Dulwich Village ; the war-time singer Anne Shelton in 1923 ( or 1928?

The children's author Enid Blyton spent time in the area and some of her adventure stories like The Famous Five ( Kirrin Island ) featured castles that were said to be based on Corfe Castle.

Blyton always said that George was based on a real girl she had once known: in her later life, she admitted that the girl was herself.

The concept was inspired by the success of the song Bananas in Pyjamas, written by Carey Blyton in 1967, on Play School.

Sinfield claimed that A Poet's Notebook by Edith Sitwell had an important influence on his writing, as well as the works of William Blake, Kahlil Gibran, Shakespeare, Enid Blyton and various science fiction writers.

In the 1920s Bourne End became home for two distinguished literary figures ; Enid Blyton, a perennially popular children's writer, moved into Old Thatch on Coldmoorholm Lane, and Edgar Wallace, a prolific crime author and dramatist, bought Chalklands off Blind Lane.

The band recorded its next album Yo-Yo in Germany during 1996, with Blyton and The Choirboys producing and Richard Lara ( The Screaming Jets ) replacing Brett Williams on guitar.

He was born on 20 April 1608 at Blyton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, where his father Thomas Rainbowe was vicar.

The children's author, Enid Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 above a shop in Lordship Lane.

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.

Henriques, in his Foreword, praises Blyton for her treatment of this subject, and stresses the negative effects of broken homes on children.

Her family life in Pennsylvania centered on her brother, Robert ’ s, children Mary Helena Devereux Scott and Richard Blyton Devereux, M. D.