What is the Nationality of Enid Blyton?

Answer 1

From excerpts from her daughters book A Childhood at Green Hedges, Enid Blyton appears as an emotionally immature, unstable and often malicious figure. However, this is associated to her father on whom she doted leaving the family home for another woman when she was a child.

Answer 2

Enid Blyton was born on the 11th of August 1897, in East Dulwich, England and died on the 28th of November, 1968, aged 71, in Hampstead, England.

She is estimated to have written over 800 books, in a period of approximately 40 years.

Enid Blyton used the pen name 'Mary Pollock' at times.

She typically wrote adventure, mystery and Fantasy Books for children.

Enid Blyton has been most famous for her Famous Five, Secret Seven, and the Noddy series and the Faraway Tree Books

Enid Blyton worked as an author, a poet and a teacher.

Enid Blyton married two men: Hugh Pollock (from 1924 - 1942) whom she divorced, and Kenneth Waters (from 1943-1967).

Blyton's books have sold over 600 million copies.

Enid Blyton tried several times over a number of years to get her work broadcasted by BBC (UK Nationa Broadcaster) and eventually in 1954 some of her work was aired.

Even though Enid Blyton remains a popular children's author, her work has been long scrutinised due to its sometimes racial insensitivity and gender stereotyping, and the suggestion that she was a second rate, long-winded author.

Answer 3

Her Name was Enid Mary Blyton

Answer 4

She was English

Answer 5

Enid Blyton was a British author.