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Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer also known as Mary Pollock.
She is noted for numerous series of popular books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed huge success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies.
One of Blyton's most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for early years readers. However, her main work is the genre of young readers' novels in which children have their own adventures with minimal adult help. Series of this type include The Famous Five (21 novels, 1942–1963, based on four children and their dog), The Five Find-Outers and Dog (15 novels, 1943–1961, where five children regularly solve crimes before the local police), as well as The Secret Seven (15 novels, 1949–1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries). She also wrote some lesser known poems and books.
Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic. Her books were and still are enormously popular throughout the Commonwealth and across most of the globe. Her work has been translated into nearly 90 languages and her literary output was of an estimated 800 books over roughly 40 years.
Chorion Limited of London owned and handled the intellectual properties and character brands of Blyton's estate but following financial difficulties in 2012, sold its assets. Hachette UK acquired world rights in the Blyton estate in March 2013, including The Famous Five series. and Noddy was sold to DreamWorks Classics (formerly Classic Media, now a subsidiary of DreamWorks Animation) in 2012.
Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton (1870–1920), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton (1874–1950). There were two younger brothers, Hanly (1899–1983) and Carey (1902–1976), who were born after the family had moved to the nearby town of Beckenham—in Oakwood Avenue. 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 and ultimately did not attend either of her parents' funerals.
From 1907 to 1915, 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.
Enid Blyton's former house "Old Thatch" near Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England
Blyton was a talented pianist, but gave up her musical studies when she trained as a teacher at Ipswich High School. She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time. Her first book, Child Whispers, a collection of poems, was published in 1922. 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. The couple moved to Bourne End, Buckinghamshire (Peterswood in her books). Eventually they moved to a house in Beaconsfield, named Green Hedges by Blyton's readers following a competition in Sunny Stories. They had two children: Gillian Mary Baverstock (15 July 1931 – 24 June 2007) and Imogen Mary Smallwood (born 27 October 1935).
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". Although she rarely attended church services, she saw that her two daughters were baptised into the Anglican faith and went to the local Sunday School.
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. 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, 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 she subsequently changed the surname of her two daughters to Darrell Waters. Pollock remarried thereafter. Blyton's second marriage was very happy and, as far as her public image was concerned, she moved smoothly into her role as a devoted doctor's wife, living with him and her two daughters at Green Hedges. It is noted that Blyton's main character in Malory Towers was named Darrell Rivers, perhaps after her second husband.
Blyton's husband died in 1967. During the following months, she became increasingly ill. 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.
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. An English Heritage blue plaque commemorates Blyton at Hook Road in Chessington, where she lived from 1920-4. 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.
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Famous Five series
Enid Blyton - Five On A Treasure Island (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go Adventuring Again (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Run Away Together (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go To Smuggler's Top (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go Off In A Caravan (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five On Kirrin Island Again (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go Off To Camp (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Get Into Trouble (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Fall Into Adventure (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five On a Hike Together (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Have A Wonderful Time (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go Down To The Sea (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go To Mystery Moor (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Have Plenty Of Fun (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five On A Secret Trail (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Go To Billycock Hill (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Get Into A Fix (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five On Finniston Farm (read by Sarah Greene)
Enid Blyton - Five Go To Demon's Rocks (read by Jan Francis)
Enid Blyton - Five Have A Mystery To Solve (read by Ann Beach)
Enid Blyton - Five Are Together Again (read by Ann Beach)
The Faraway Tree series
Enid Blyton - The Enchanted Wood (read by Evelyn Mclean)
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree (read by Kate Winslet)
Enid Blyton - The Folk Of The Faraway Tree (read by Kate Winslet)
Adventure series books 1,2 and 5
Enid Blyton - The Island Of Adventure (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - The Castle Of Adventure (read by Bernard Cribbins)
Enid Blyton - The Mountain Of Adventure (read by ???)
The Five Find-Outers Books
Enid Blyton - The Mystery Of The Burnt Cottage (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - The Mystery Of The Secret Room (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - The Mystery Of The Spiteful Letters (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - The Mystery Of The Tally-Ho Cottage (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - The Mystery Of The Strange Messages (read by ???)
The Secret Seven series Books 7 and 12
Enid Blyton - Secret Seven Win Through (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - Good Old Secret Seven (read by ???)
Malory Towers series / AB-DRM
Enid Blyton - First Term (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - Second Form (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - Third Year (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - Upper Fourth (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - In The Fifth (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - Last Term (read by ???)
Other
Enid Blyton - Five Have A Puzzling Time And Other Stories (read by ???)
Enid Blyton - The Secret Mountain (read by ???)
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Famous Five series
http://rapidgator.net/file/eba57ffaeeac928482d440068b2765f9/Five_On_A_Treasure_Island.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4317a52ca18bd0d30894d8d3f6c42b8e/Five_Go_Adventuring_Again.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/cc9df5024a9bf0842d346d5205b3cfae/Five_Run_Away_Together.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7290dff9b84ade8db016c71ee1484dfc/Five_Go_To_Smugglers_Top.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/05fbf210354bc3a2c475e34e3828c5b1/Five_Go_Off_In_A_Caravan.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/12821ca6742dee170dcfddb9d25112dd/Five_On_Kirrin_Island_Again.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b013e8138abb8ae71a57f6e6a2ce2a0b/Five_Go_Off_To_Camp.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f2354ab9b1056503f774824dff37d540/Five_Get_Into_Trouble.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a9e123b30278b9db3eb0dfdac47d459f/Five_Fall_Into_Adventure.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/632e1704af729462d89f58ee17329925/Five_On_a_Hike_Together.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d119668396e2ede5eea0e292439fd079/Five_Have_A_Wonderful_Time.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4b27aeb195ce37bd134b06d0dea4a5ae/Five_Go_Down_To_The_Sea.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/c4217c35c555050e2356ab535c24bd0d/Five_Go_To_Mystery_Moor.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/797366239b60f89082c534ea7f035e21/Five_Have_Plenty_Of_Fun.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/577a79f0e4fb63b4acd42ade98974e64/Five_On_A_Secret_Trail.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4282302f30a348a88915cd93636cf8b5/Five_Go_To_Billycock_Hill.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1412eba6e7c55e64ff847de05d127405/Five_Get_Into_A_Fix.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5fc3336d57dc9f6c819a3e80620f3dfa/Five_On_Finniston_Farm.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/27ab7ce3b7b94a5f21cc615b270eb5e9/Five_Go_To_Demons_Rocks.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/182ff2f72ff7f872ca99a6240acdb04d/Five_Have_A_Mystery_To_Solve.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/20e231db7a7b75cfa0fc9609858a81f0/Five_Are_Together_Again.rar.html
The Faraway Tree series
http://rapidgator.net/file/98eface270a9a8c5198e04468d218d87/The_Enchanted_Wood.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f1c17a4d3389654da70ee65b48af5a87/The_Magic_Faraway_Tree.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8e27602297340b2c1286744523864362/The_Folk_Of_The_Faraway_Tree.rar.html
Adventure series
http://rapidgator.net/file/53286f172c319981c79e5c53f4e8411f/The_Island_Of_Adventure.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/47dc836abf3c8f3e17d9925a3f5122d2/The_Castle_Of_Adventure.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8d78777088b402ce97c7e405a7e5b32c/The_Mountain_Of_Adventure.rar.html
The Five Find-Outers Books
http://rapidgator.net/file/6105986d092873dc72b11a207b2aaf68/The_Mystery_Of_The_Burnt_Cottage.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5e2627ae36f509077189aad5280e4fef/The_Mystery_Of_The_Secret_Room.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e88ca49e59a1ef506c007592643f7ab4/The_Mystery_Of_The_Spiteful_Letters.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/be38563c7b8e0182ac147d9150ebcae8/The_Mystery_Of_The_Tally-Ho_Cottage.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/28f63eaa554e07ab7a6c829bc1cf94c9/The_Mystery_Of_The_Strange_Messages.rar.html
The Secret Seven series
http://rapidgator.net/file/0b2a15a58cc816052c3d4b2e23e6676f/Secret_Seven_Win_Through.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f9df1503181a5da86b93a8edd230b811/Good_Old_Secret_Seven.rar.html
Malory Towers series
http://rapidgator.net/file/26d42f4144e44e49dddf6d39ab704182/AB_First_Term.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9a1e514ae20c69c6dca8d96e54e378d5/AB_Second_Form.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b8c6b46d735268126e024db4cf94bb38/AB_Third_Year.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/95554b881389e06fd2e90570989c1bd8/AB_Upper_Fourth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f6dfb4062690f934efa84e33a9ed6071/AB_In_The_Fifth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/81c750b26ccc335dbeddeca46835f642/AB_Last_Term.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/99976c7ed1ce18e31604d582d6f0a40c/Five_Have_A_Puzzling_Time_And_Other_Stories.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e8ea846bda84b251ef97d3e05c524e3c/The_Secret_Mountain.rar.html |
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