Enid Mary Blyton

  Enid Mary Blyton was also known as Mary Pollock or Enid Blyton. Enid Blyton was a British children's writer, She is noted for numerous series of popular books based on recurring characters and designed for different age book. One of her popular books is the series of 'Lima Sekawan', 'Secret Seven', 'Pasukan Mau Tahu', and some others. Enid Blyton born at 11 August 1897, Lordship Lane, Southwark. Died on 28 November 1968 Hampstead.
 
  From 1907 to 1915, Enid Blyton was educated at St. Christopher's School in Beckenham leaving as head girl. She enjoyed physical activities along with some academic work, but not maths.

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

  Enid Blyton married with Major Hugh Alexander Pollock on 28 August 1924, They had 2 children:
~ Gillian Mary Baverstock (Born on 15 July 1931 – Died on 24 June 2007)
                    &
~  Imogen Mary Smallwood (born on 27 October 1935).

  They live in a house named Green Hedges





This is where the Couple live before they had a child.

  By 1939 her marriage to Pollock was in difficulties, and she began a series of affairs. In 1941 she met Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon with whom she began a relationship. During her divorce, Enid Blyton blackmailed Pollock into taking full blame for the failure of the marriage, knowing that exposure of her adultery would ruin her public image. She promised that if he admitted to charges of infidelity, she would allow him unlimited access to their daughters. However, after the divorce, Pollock was forbidden to contact his daughters, and Blyton ensured he was unable to find work in publishing afterwards. He turned to drinking heavily and was forced to petition for bankruptcy.

   Blyton and Darrell Waters married (at the City of Westminster) Register Office on 20 October 1943, and then she change the surname of her daughter to Darrell Waters. Enid Blyton's second marriage was very happy, living with him and her two daughters at Green Hedges.

  Enid Blyton's husband died in 1967. During the following months, she became increasingly ill. Enid 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.

  Enid Blyton's home, Green Hedges, was sold in 1971 and demolished in 1973. The area where Green Hedges once stood is now occupied by houses and a street called Blyton Close.
~ 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. As a child, I viewed her as a rather strict authority. As an adult I pitied her."
~ Her 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.