1. Enid Blyton!

3. The marriage of Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton got married to a man called Hugh Alexander Pollock. They got married on the 28th August 1924 and 18 years later they sadly divorced. Whilst still married, Enid met Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, who she later married.

4. Living
Enid lived in a pretty little cottage in a place called East Dulwich which is in London, south of the river Thames.

5. Enid’s House

6. The children of Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton had 2 children called Gillian Baverstock and Imogen Smallwood. Her eldest daughter, Gillian was born on the 15th July 1931 and Imogen, her youngest daughter was born on the 27th October 1935.

7. Mother and daughters

8. Writing Style
Enid has written a variety of different story types such as: fairy tales, animals, detective, mystery and circus stories. She would shut her eyes for a few moments with her typewriter on her knee and make her mind go blank. She would imagine real children turning into characters. Then she would start to form a sentence about that character and the story would just come flowing into her mind naturally. She would not have to do anything else.

9. Her Books
Enid has written over 800 books which have been translated into around 90 languages in her life time, selling over 600 million world wide, beating JK Rowling and Roald Dahl.

10. Awards
Enid Blyton received 2 awards in her career. The first came from the boy’s club America for “The Mystery Island” in Enid was also chosen, after she died, in the 2008 Costa book award survey as the best-loved author in the UK.

11. Enid’s famous signature

12. The death of Enid Blyton
Sadly on the 28th November 1968 the magnificent author’s life came to an end when she suffered a heart attack. She was cremated at Golders Green crematorium in London.