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

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.

From 1907 to 1915, Blyton was educated at St. Christopher's School in Beckenham, leaving as head girl.

Blyton was a talented pianist, but gave up her musical studies when she trained as a teacher at Ipswich High School.

In the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but she decided against converting to Roman Catholicism from the Church of England because she had felt it was " too restricting ".

However, after the divorce, Pollock was forbidden to contact his daughters, and Blyton ensured he was unable to find work in publishing afterwards.

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.

Enid Blyton was a prolific author of short stories.

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.

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.

It was later used in the Enid Blyton parody Five Go Mad in Dorset and in a number of British TV adverts, including a Captain Sensible spot.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Blyton also wrote numerous books on nature and Biblical themes.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 ).

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.

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.

* August 11 – Enid Blyton, British children's writer ( d. 1968 )

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.

In August 2011, Sitsky announced plans to write a series of operas based on the stories of Enid Blyton.

* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )

* November 28 – Enid Blyton, British children's writer ( b. 1897 )

Writers include Enid Blyton ( 1897 – 1968 ) and A. L.

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.

A blue plaque commemorates Blyton at Hook Road in Chessington, where she lived from 1920-4.

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

In 1957 Baverstock married Gillian Darrell Waters, elder daughter of British children's author Enid Blyton, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.

The plot of the children's story " The Mystery of the Invisible Thief " by Enid Blyton begins at a gymkhana held at an English village, testifying to its being a common institution in English society at the time of writing ( the 1940s ).

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.