The house, that was toīe associated with Blyton for the rest of her life, was Green Hedges, built of redīrick with black and white half-timbered gables, in Beaconsfield, a small townīlyton in the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but sheĭecided not to convert to Roman Catholicism because she had felt it was "tooĬonstricting". To the River Thames at Bourne End in Buckinghamshire. In 1929 they moved to 'Old Thatch', a large 16th-century cottage, close Shortlands Road, Beckenhame, which Blyton eventually called her first 'real They moved soon to Elfin Cottage, a newly built house in When her stories started to attract a wider audience.īlyton in 1924 married Hugh Pollock, an editor of the book department of She also compiled a children's encyclopedia, but it was not until in the 1930s, World gained popularity among teachers, who used them for their lessons. Her stories, plays, and songs for Teachers' In 1926 Blyton took on the editing a new magazine forĬhildren, Sunny Stories. When the literary commitments increased, Blyton devoted She also opened her ownīlyton greatly enjoying her work with children and decided to become aĬhildren's writer. SheĮxperienced more and more success with her writing. Had both poems and articles for adults accepted by various magazines. She did Froebel teacher's training.īlyton taught school for 5 years in teaching. She studied to be a kindergarten teacherĪt Ipswich High School. Saville and Newnes.īlyton decided to train as a teacher so that she could support herself while ![]() Responsive Singing Games (1923), The Enid Blyton Book ofįairies (1924), Songs of Gladness (1924), The Zoo Book Twenty-four-page work was followed by Real Fairies: Poems (1923), Her first book,Ĭhild Whispers, a collection of verse, appeared in 1922. You-? appeared in Nash's Magazine in 1917. She indeed was an accomplished young pianist.Įnid when she was 14 years old, however, won a children's poetryĬompetition and encouraged by this success began to submit articles, stories and ![]() From her earliest childhood, Blyton had been schooled in the belief that she would eventually be a musician. He was thus able to support his family and Enid received a traditionalĮnglish private school education. It wasĮnid's father set up a successful wholesale clothing business in the City of Husband, Theresa moved with the children to the suburb of Beckenham. As a result, when Enid was quite young, her parents decided toĮnid Blyton was born in London during 1897. Christopher's).Įnid's mother, Theresa Mary Hamilton, did not share many of her husband's She felt her father rejected her as well (he continued to pay for her music lessons and private school education at St. ![]() This happened when she was thirteen and highly sensitive. She and her father were very close and was devastated when her mother and fathers relationship deteriorated and he left for another women. Salesman he joined his two older brothers in the family "mantle warehousing"īusiness of Fisher and Nephew. He painted in waterĬolors, wrote poetry, and dabbled with photography. Who also attracts children to books has been criticized for just the opposite-aĮnid's father, Thomas Blyton, was a very talented man. Blyton's most famous series was The Famous Five.īlyton's works painted an idyllic vision of rural England and hearty EnglishnessĪnd in recent years she has been criticized for this. Wrote books that children loved to read and attracted them to books-much like Her name, she is likely to remain so for years to come. ![]() Prolific author of all time, and with over 700 books and 10,000 short stories to She published an amazing number ofĬhildren's or juvenile books, 600 by one account. This story was set during World War II.Įnid Blyton is probably the most successful children's author of all Notice the patterns on the top of the boys kneesocks, a Figure 1.-Most of Enid Blyton's stories were set in England, but a few wereĪlso set in Scotland.
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