Enid Mary Blyton born on 11 August 1897 and died on 28 November 1968, was an English children’s writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have been translated into ninety languages.
As of June 2019, Enid Blyton held 4th place for the most translated author. She wrote on a wide range of topics, including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives. She is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers, and Malory Towers books, although she also wrote many others including the St Clare’s, The Naughtiest Girl, and The Faraway Tree series.
Who are Enid Blyton’s children?
Imogen Mary Smallwood and Gillian Baverstock are the children of Enid Blyton. Imogen Smallwood is Enid’s younger and only surviving daughter, she wrote the book A Childhood at Green Hedges about her childhood with her mother.
Gillian Mary Baverstock was a British author, non-fiction writer, and memoirist. She was the elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock. She wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life.
Enid Blyton’s Children: Meet Imogen Mary Smallwood
Imogen Smallwood is Enid’s younger and only surviving daughter, she wrote the book A Childhood at Green Hedges about her childhood with her mother.
Imogen Smallwood, Enid’s younger and only living daughter, remarked on the Ten O’Clock News that her mother would have been thrilled to know she was still widely read. “It would have been a tremendous surprise to Enid, I think,” she said.
It’s telling that Blyton’s daughter chooses to call her famous mother “Enid” rather than “mum” – but then Blyton has, in recent years, become as synonymous with the label “bad mother” as “beloved author”. She now has a reputation for being, in Blyton’s language, jolly horrid. Imogen wasn’t so much treated to lashings of ginger beer as aloofness and emotional neglect.
Enid Blyton’s Children: Meet Gillian Mary Baverstock
Gillian Mary Baverstock born on 15 July 1931 and died on 24 June 2007, was a British author, non-fiction writer, and memoirist. She was the elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock. She wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life.
She was 12 and her sister was 8 when their parents divorced. She worked as a primary school teacher at Moorfield (Montessori) School, Ilkley, and wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life. She was estranged from her younger sister, Imogen, who in contrast to Gillian did not remember her childhood or Blyton’s qualities as a mother fondly.
In 1999, Gillian Baverstock founded Quill Publications Ltd., with comic writer Tim Quinn, to produce twelve editions of the children’s comic book Blue Moon. She wrote a series of stories which were based on popular fairy tales like “Sleeping Beauty” and “Little Red Riding Hood”. The comic is no longer in production. In 2005, she defended her mother’s book The Mystery That Never Was after claims that it contained racist overtones.
In 1957, she married Donald Baverstock, a BBC producer and executive, at St James’s Church, Piccadilly; they had four children.
