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Blyton and created
The Secret Seven or " Secret Seven Society " are a fictional group of child detectives created by Enid Blyton.
Noddy is a character created by English children's author Enid Blyton, originally published between 1949 and 1963.

Blyton and several
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.
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.
The newly formed company owned a diverse range of assets in the entertainment industry, including the retail complex at the London Trocadero, the rights to the Enid Blyton literary estate, and several other entertainment venues, bars and nightclubs in the UK.
In September 2010, Seven Stories purchased several original typescripts by Enid Blyton, making Seven Stories the largest public collector of Blyton material.

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

Blyton and for
During her divorce, Blyton blackmailed Pollock into taking full blame for the failure of the marriage, knowing that exposure of her adultery would ruin her public image.
Blyton wrote hundreds of other books for young and older children: novels, story collections and some non-fiction.
These were first published, for the most part, in Sunny Stories, an Enid Blyton magazine, or other children's papers.
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.
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.
Briers was the original narrator and voice actor for the Enid Blyton series Noddy.
" Five Go Mad ..." drew anger from some viewers for the way it mercilessly satirised a children's classic, although the Enid Blyton estate had given permission for the broadcast.
The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton.
The characters were inspired by a 1967 song written for children by British composer Carey Blyton ( nephew of renowned children's author Enid Blyton ).
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 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 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 ).
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.
* Anyon Cook, Illustrator for Enid Blyton. Harbour Studio
Henriques, in his Foreword, praises Blyton for her treatment of this subject, and stresses the negative effects of broken homes on children.
* The incidental music for this serial was composed by Carey Blyton and performed by the London Saxophone Quartet.

Blyton and her
Blyton adored her father and was devastated after he left the family to live with another woman ; this has often been cited as the reason behind her emotional immaturity.
Blyton and her mother did not have a good relationship, and later in life, Blyton claimed to others that her mother was dead.
After both her parents did die, Blyton attended neither of their funerals.
Blyton was a talented pianist, but gave up her musical studies when she trained as a teacher at Ipswich High School.
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.
Since her death in 1968 and the publication of her daughter Imogen's autobiography, A Childhood at Green Hedges, Blyton has emerged as an emotionally immature, unstable and often malicious figure.
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.
Her daughter Imogen has been quoted as saying " The truth is Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct.
" Elder daughter, Gillian, did not hold the same view toward their mother, and Imogen's biography of Blyton contains a foreword by Gillian to the effect that her memories of childhood with Enid Blyton were mainly happy ones.
In February 2011, the manuscript of a previously unknown Blyton novel, Mr Tumpy's Caravan, was discovered in a collection of her papers which had been auctioned in 2010 following the death of her elder daughter in 2007.
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 and series
The Famous Five is the name of a series of children's novels written by British author Enid Blyton.
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.
Unlike most other Blyton series, this one takes place during the school term time because the characters go to day schools.
Category: Enid Blyton series
Malory Towers is a series of six novels by British children's author Enid Blyton, featuring the fictional Cornish seaside boarding school of the same name.
Category: Enid Blyton series
St. Clare's is a series of six books written by English children's author Enid Blyton about a boarding school of that name.
Recently, Enid Blyton Limited have copyrighted three further books in the series, written by Pamela Cox:
Blyton wrote two other series about life at a boarding school: Malory Towers and the Naughtiest Girl series.
Category: Enid Blyton series
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.
The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton, a prolific English children's author, is a series of eight children's novels.
Originally, the series was supposed to end after this episode, but under the great demand of dedicated fans, Blyton wrote two more episodes:
Category: Enid Blyton series
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.
Category: Enid Blyton series
* Naughty Amelia Jane, doll antiheroine of a children's book series by Enid Blyton

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