By the mid-1940s she had started writing most of her major novel series, while her daughters were at boarding school. They divorced in 1942, as both started relationships with someone new.Įnid married Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a surgeon, in 1943. They had two children: Gillian, born in 1931, and Imogen, born in 1935. He guided her in the business side of writing, and persuaded her to use a typewriter. In 1924 she married Hugh Alexander Pollock, who worked for a publishing firm. In the 1920s she made more success as a writer, with her first few books published as well as many stories, articles, verses and plays. She completed training in 1918, and held various positions as a governess and at schools teaching. Her first published poems came out while she was doing teacher training. By 1916 she had stopped contact with her mother.

Enid was head girl for her final two years at school, and left in 1915.Īfter leaving school, Enid trained to be a teacher, because she knew she wanted to write stories for children. While at school she began to write stories and poems, although her mother thought it was a 'waste of time'. Her father left the family in 1910 to live with another woman, devastating Enid especially because she had a much closer relationship with her father than with her mother, Theresa. She excelled at tennis, lacrosse and writing. In 1907 Enid started senior school at St Christopher's School in Beckenham. From her father, Thomas, she learnt to love nature, music and literature. She loved reading as a child, books such as Little Women and Alice in Wonderland. She had two younger brothers, Hanly and Carey, and grew up in Kent. OL21218288W Page_number_confidence 89.15 Pages 214 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.7 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210201075332 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 261 Scandate 20210128200315 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781444924886 Tts_version 4.Enid Mary Blyton was born in London on 11th August 1897.

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