Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton (London, 11 August 1897 -Brussels, 28 november 1968) was a British writer of children's books. She is best known In Netherlands with the books series the five (The Famous Five) and Noddy. ==Biography[ Edit] == She was born in East Dulwich, South London. Her father was Thomas Carey Blyton; her mother was called Theresa Mary Harrison. She had two younger brothers, Hanly and Carey. She could get along better with her father than with her mother.

From 1907 to 1915 she went to the ' St. Christophers School for girls ' in Beckenham in Southeast London. Her father wanted her pianist would be.

Her parents divorced In 1910. In that time she began to write, possibly to retreat into a fantasy world. Together with her girlfriends Mirabel Davis and Mary Attenborough she founded a magazine called DAB, the initials of their surnames.

On her 19th she went for teacher learning. Hereinafter referred to as gave them 2 years les and then she lived 4 years as the family governess at Surbiton in South London. In 1922 came the poetry collection Child Whispers from. In 1924 she gave her course.

In August 1924, she married Hugh Pollock (her editor at Newnes publishing house). In 1926 they moved to Elfin Cottage (Elves cottage) in Beckenham. She earned in 1926 already 1200 pounds (about € 75,000 in 2007 currency). She has published among other things a lot in teacher's World. In an interview she told that she would keep writing as long as there was a child that was fun to her work.

Later they moved to ' Old Thatch ' in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. There she wrote her own weekly magazine ' Sunny Stories '.

In 1931 she received her first daughter Gillian and her second daughter Imogen in 1935.

In 1938 she bought ' Green Hedges ', a house in Beaconsfield, 40 km west of London. Here she lived until her death. According to her daughter Imogen was they don't really have a ' mother '. The daughters soon sent to a boarding school. Her marriage ran into the war on the cliffs.

In October 1943 she married the surgeon Kenneth Darrell Waters. In the period of her life on ' Green Hedges, she wrote her ' great series ' she was also much concerned with writing and answering letters.

In 1960, she received the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Her husband died In 1967, they a year later.

Her work includes books series with recurring characters for different age categories. The books are imaginative, but usually without magic. The books are popular in England and Australia, but are also translated into 41 languages. ==Literary criticism<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Enid Blyton has a body of work of about 600 titles. She has written in many magazines. It is told that they sometimes wrote 10,000 words a day, making ever suggested that they must have had help from other writers, but these are never found. In an interview she laid her method of working out: an adventure of the five stood in 4 days on paper.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Key words in her books are ' secret ' and ' adventure '. There are common tunnels and secret rooms at for. The main characters are often prepubescent children. The role of adults is very limited. Enid Blyton was one of the forerunners in this ' volwassenloze ' genre children's literature.

<p lang="en" len="342" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although they were very popular and was also in children, parents, teachers and librarians often opposed against her books because they would be poor literary quality.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another objection is substantive. Since the first publication are the insights regarding gender differences, relationships and racial differences classes thoroughly amended and that is enough to make one squirm sometimes clear in the books of Enid Blyton. In the books of ' the five ' for example, Gypsies are usually villains. In 2002, including the five created a re-translation, in which imperialist and racist, sexist, snobbish draw have been eliminated. Thought about that approach is different. The translator of the new version works under the pseudonym J.H. giver. The new version is based on the English original. ==Overview of the series<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The mad twins
 * Pitty
 * The largest belhamel
 * Circus series
 * Noddy
 * Mini Mouse
 * Stories-books
 * The Five
 * Adventures series
 * Secret island series
 * The adventurous four
 * Robert Jan (Also known as Barney)
 * The ' big 7 '
 * Machiel and Inge (Also known as Mike and Nora)
 * The five detectives
 * the club 8
 * the club from 7