Chronology

This chronology is necessarily selective and does not list all the stories, poemsand articles by Blyton published in a given year.

Year Life and work Notable events

1897 11 August: Born at 354 LordshipLane, Dulwich, to Thomas andTheresa Blyton. The family movesto 95 Chaffinch Road, Beckenham(–1902)

Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee;Bram Stoker, Dracula

1899 Brother Hanly born First motor bus in London1902 Family move to 35 Clock House

Road. Brother Carey born. Attends‘Tresco’ nursery school

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound ofthe Baskervilles

1907 Attends St Christopher’s School(–1915)

Robert Baden-Powell forms theBoy Scouts

1910 Thomas Blyton leaves the family Edward VII dies; accession ofGeorge V

1911 Enid enters a poetry competitionfor children run by Arthur Meeeditor of The Little Paper

Troops defeat alleged Russiananarchists in Sidney Street;Frances Hodgson Burnett, TheSecret Garden

1912 Moves with mother and brothers to4 Elm Road, Beckenham

Captain Robert Scott’s expeditionreaches the South Pole. RMSTitanic sinks

1915 Family moves to 13 Westfield Road,Beckenham. Enid leaves schooland moves into the home of afriend, Mary Attenborough.Intends to apply for the GuildhallSchool of Music

Herbert Asquith forms coalitionwartime government

First Zeppelin air-raid on Britain;Ocean liner Lusitania is sunk byGerman submarines

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1916 Enrols on a Froebel teacher trainingcourse at Ipswich High School(–1918)

Battles of Verdun and the Somme;David Lloyd George is PrimeMinister

1917 Publishes poem ‘Have You…?’ inNash’s Magazine (March)

Russian revolution; United Statesdeclares war on Germany

1918 Completes Froebel training course 11 November Armistice signed1919 January: Teaches at Bickley Park

SchoolNancy Astor elected MP

1920 Works as governess for theThompson family, Surbiton. July:Thomas Blyton dies of a heartattack aged 50. Blyton receiveslegacy of £500

League of Nations established.Communist Party of Great Britainestablished; Katherine Mansfield,Bliss; D.H. Lawrence, Women inLove

1921 February: Wins an essaycompetition in The SaturdayWestminster Review: ‘On thePopular Fallacy that to the PureAll Things are Pure.’

Irish Free State established; MarieStopes open first Mothers Clinic;John GalsworthyTo Let; LyttonStrachey, Queen Victoria

1922 February: story, ‘Petronel and HisPot of Glue’, Teacher’s World;June: Child Whispers

Benito Mussolini leads fascistmarch on Rome; Tomb ofTutankhamun discovered

T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland1923 July: ‘From My Window’ column

begins in Teacher’s World. MeetsHugh Pollock. Earns £300 fromher writings

Conservatives led by StanleyBaldwin win Election. ArnoldBennett, Riceyman Steps(reviewed by Blyton in Teacher’sWorld). Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, TheSchool at the Chalet

1924 August: Marries Hugh Pollock,moves to a flat at 32 BeaufortMansions, Chelsea. October: TheEnid Blyton Book of Fairies.

Earns over £500 from her writing

Ramsay MacDonald becomes PrimeMinister of the first Labourgovernment

E.M. Forster, A Passage to IndiaNoel Coward, The Vortex

1925 The Enid Blyton Book of Bunnies;Silver and Gold. Income fromwriting reaches £1,095

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf; VirginiaWoolf, Mrs Dalloway

1926 February: Moves to Elfin Cottage,Beckenham. July: Becomeseditor/sole-contributor to SunnyStories (250 issues)

November: Acquires Bobs, afox-terrier

3–12 May, General Strike; birth ofPrincess Elizabeth; RudolphValentino dies; A.A. Milne,Winnie-the-Pooh; Fritz Lang,Metropolis [film]

1927 Learns to type and drive. August:‘Letters to Children’ columnbegins in Teacher’s World (–1929)

A.A. Milne, Now We are SixCharles Lindbergh flies solo fromNew York to Paris

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1928 Consults a gynecologist about herapparent difficulties in conceivinga child

Tales of Brer Rabbit Retold

Women’s suffrage extended towomen over twenty-one. A.Milne, The House at PoohCorner. Jean Rhys, Quartet

1929 August: Moves to “Old Thatch”,Bourne End; Nature Lessons, withillustrated by Blyton published.September: Begins children’s page(Teacher’s World)

Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Ministerof Labour government. WallStreet crash

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’sOwn

1930 Cruise to Maderia and the CanaryIslands

Aviator Amy Johnson flies solo toAustralia; Arthur Ransome,Swallows and Amazons

1931 July: Gives birth to daughter, Gillian Ramsay MacDonald’s NationalGovernment

1932 February: Submits novel for adults,The Caravan Goes On but fails tofind a publisher

First airline service; Aldous Huxley,Brave New World; Stella Gibbons,Cold Comfort Farm

1933 October: Letters from Bobs. Salesreach 10,000 in the first week

Hitler becomes German ChancellorF.D. Roosevelt becomes U.S.President

1934 Suffers a miscarriage; Hugh Pollockworks with Winston Churchillediting The Great War

British Union of Fascists rallyattracts 10,000

Geoffrey Trease, Bows Against theBarons

1935 October: Gives birth to daughter,Imogen. A residential nurse,Dorothy Richards, is employed tohelp. She and Blyton form a closefriendship. November: Bobs dies

L.C.C. establishes ‘Green Belt’ tohalt spread of London; EdithBagnold, National Velvet; T.S.Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

Penguin books founded1936 The Yellow Fairy Book; The Famous

JimmyDecember: abdication of EdwardVIII; accession of George VI

1937 January: Relaunch of Sunny Storiesas Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories.Blyton writes the contents of 552issues. Uses it to publish longerstories as serials includingAdventures of the Wishing Chair

J.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit; WaltDisney, Snow White and theSeven Dwarf s [film]

Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes; TheCarnegie Medal for Children’sLiterature established; ArthurRansome is the first winner

1938 August: moves to “Green Hedges”.September: The Secret Island; Mr.Galliano’s Circus

German troops enter AustriaNeville Chamberlain signs MunichAgreement with Germany

1939 May: The Enchanted Wood;October: Naughty Amelia Jane!

3 September: Britain declares waron Germany; The Wizard of Oz[film]

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Year Life and work Notable events

1940 May: Hugh Pollock joins HomeGuard. November: Writing as‘Mary Pollock’ publishes TheChildren of Kidillin

Rationing; Italy declares war onBritain

Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator[film]

Kitty Barne, Visitors from London1941 May: The Adventurous Four; on

holiday with Dorothy Richards inBudleigh Salterton, Enid meetsKenneth Darrell Waters.November: The Twins at St Clare’s.Five further titles follow (– 1945).December: Sunny Stories Calendar1942

United States and Soviet Unionenter the War. Morrison sheltersdistributed

Noel Coward, Blithe SpiritVirginia Woolf, Between the ActsMary Treadgold, We Couldn’tLeave Dinah

The First of the Few [film]1942 First use of the Blyton

logo-signature. Publishestwenty-two books. September:Gillian sent as a boarder toGodstowe School. September: Fiveon a Treasure Island (Hodder &Stoughton). December: DivorcesHugh Pollock citing his adultery

Japan takes control of SingaporeRAF bombers attack CologneBeveridge Report advocates ascheme of social welfare. Walterde la Mare, Collected Poems. T.S.Eliot, ‘Little Gidding’. In WhichWe Serve [film]

1943 April: Seven o’clock Tales; June: TheChildren’s Life of Christ. October:The Magic Faraway Tree; marriesKenneth Waters. December: TheMystery of the Burnt Cottage

Allied invasion of ItalyRAF bombing of Hamburg

1944 March: Tales from the Bible; April:The Three Golliwogs; July: TheBoy Next Door; September:Imogen (aged 8) sent toGodstowe school; November: TheIsland of Adventure

Normandy landings; final heavybombing raids on London. HenryV [film]; L.P. Hartley, The Shrimpand the Anemone; Joyce Cary,The Horse’s Mouth

The Way Ahead [film]1945 Blyton suffers a miscarriage.

January: Round the Clock Stories;The Family at Red-Roofs; June:The Caravan Family; July: EnidBlyton Nature Readers Nos 1–10[Nos. 11–20 published in October];Hollow Tree House.

8 May: Victory in Europe Day; 15August: Victory of Japan Day;Labour government elected;Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit ofLove; George Orwell, AnimalFarm; Evelyn Waugh, BridesheadRevisited; Brief Encounter [film]

1946 Doris Cox begins work as a maid atGreen Hedges (–1968). March: ThePut- ‘Em-Rights (Lutterworth);July: First Term at Malory Towers(Methuen). November: EnidBlyton’s Gay Story Book (Hodder);December: The Enid BlytonHoliday Book (Samson, Low,Marston)

Nuremberg war crimes trials. Majorindustries nationalised. Firstsession of UN Assembly.Heathrow Airport opens

Television resumes (suspendedsince 1939)

J.B. Priestley, An Inspector CallsTerence Rattigan, The Winslow BoyBBC Third Programme begins

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Year Life and work Notable events

1947 August: House at the Corner.October, Little Green Duck.December: Before I Go to Sleep

Partition of India; PrincessElizabeth marries Prince Philip ofGreece; Rogers and Hammerstein,Oklahoma; Christian Dior’s ‘NewLook’

1948 May: Let’s Garden; June: BrerRabbit and His Friends. July: Cometo the Circus. October: visits NewYork to meet publishers.November: Six Cousins atMistletoe Farm. The board game,Journey Through Fairyland isissued

Mahatma Gandhi assassinated;National Health service created;Gas industry nationalised;Olympic Games, London

John Betjeman, Selected Poems;Alan Paton, Cry the BelovedCountry; Terence Rattigan, TheBrowning Version

1949 Publishes thirty-two books; March:The Rockingdown Mystery (5more titles – 1959). July: A StoryParty at Green Hedges.September: Enid Blyton BibleStories: Old Testament (14 titles).November: The Secret Seven (14further titles –1963); ThoseDreadful Children; Noddy Goes toToyland (Noddy Library series: 24books –1963)

NATO founded; end of sweet andclothes rationing; first flight ofDH Comet, first jet airliner; theGoon Show begins on radio;George Orwell, NineteenEighty-four; Dodie Smith, ICapture the Castle; T.S. Eliot, TheCocktail Party; Simone deBeauvoir, The Second Sex

1950 March: Darrell Waters Ltd is setup. 31 October: Theresa Blytondies, Enid does not attendfuneral. November: The Pole StarFamily; Faraway Tree, the firstEnid Blyton card game is issued

General Election reduces Labourmajority; petrol rationing ends;anti-apartheid demonstration inSouth Africa; C.S. Lewis, The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe;Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing

1951 Blyton purchases a golf course atStudland Bay, Dorset; October:The Six Bad Boys; November: TheProud Golliwog

Festival of Britain; Conservativeswin General Election; J.D.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

1952 44 titles published. September: TheStory of My Life; November: EnidBlyton’s Animal Lover’s Book;Famous Five Club formed

Death of George VI; accession ofElizabeth II. Smog in Londonblamed for over 2000 deaths;Agatha Christie, The Mousetrap;Mary Norton, The Borrowers

1953 George Greenfield becomes Blyton’sagent. February: steps down fromSunny Stories; The Story of OurQueen; March: launches EnidBlyton’s Magazine(–1959)

Everest is climbed; Death of Stalin;2 June: Queen Elizabeth iscrowned; Samaritans founded;end of sugar rationing; IanFleming, Casino Royale

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Year Life and work Notable events

1954 Rumours continue to circulate thatBlyton does not write her ownbooks. January: Enid Blyton BibleStories: New Testament (nos1–14). December: Blyton resignsher directorship of Darrell WatersLtd; Noddy in Toyland opens atthe Stoll Theatre

Food rationing ends; Television Billpaves way for a commercialchannel

Kingsley Amis, Lucky JimWilliam Golding, Lord of the FliesJ.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of theRing

1955 September: Noddy puppets appearon ITV. December: Famous FiveAdventure opens in London(revived in 1956)

General election won byConservatives; dock and printstrikes; Samuel Beckett, Waitingfor Godot

1956 September: A Story Book of Jesus.October: Bom, the Little ToyDrummer (7 further titles –1961);Tales from the Bible (Muller).Completes a play for adults, TheTouchstone, but it is neverperformed

First Aldermaston march; Suezcrisis; John Osborne, Look Back inAnger; Patricia Highsmith, TheTalented Mr Ripley; Dodie Smith,One Hundred and OneDalmatians

1957 Darrell Waters retires. May: Blytonis taken ill whilst playing golf;Five on a Treasure Island film ismade by Children’s FilmFoundation. July: Enid Blyton NewTestament Picture Books

Harold Macmillan becomes PrimeMinister

Wolfenden Commissionrecommends legalization ofhomosexual acts betweenconsenting adults. John Osborne,The Entertainer

1958 July: Enid Blyton’s Tenth BedsideBook. August: Enid Blyton’s BomAnnual

C.N.D. launched. Racial violence inNotting Hill. Shelagh Delaney, ATaste of Honey. Philippa Pearce,Tom’s Midnight Garden

1959 September: Blyton announcesclosure of Enid Blyton’s Magazine

Obscene Publications Act becomeslaw

Conservatives win General electionAlan Sillitoe, Loneliness of theLong-Distance Runner

1960 Blyton is asked by Penguin Booksto be a defence witness at theLady Chatterley’s Lover trial;Adventure of the Strange Ruby

J.F. Kennedy becomes U.S.president; Harper Lee, To Kill aMockingbird; Alan Garner, TheWeirdstone of Brisingamen

1961 October: The Mystery that NeverWas; The Big Enid Blyton Book. Itbecomes noticeable that Blyton isbeginning to suffer from memoryloss

Berlin Wall built; Britain applies forEU membership; Muriel Spark,The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie;Roald Dahl, James and the GiantPeach

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1962 Noddy book sales reach 26 millionJuly: The Four Cousins (Lutterworth)

Commonwealth Immigration Billremoves right of free entry forCommonwealth citizen. CubanMissile Crisis. That Was The WeekThat Was broadcast [watched byBlyton]

1963 February: Existing Blyton series (StClare’s, Malory Towers, theFind-Outers,) released aspaperbacks by Armada. July: Fiveare Together Again (final story inthe series; Fun for the SecretSeven. November: Noddy and theAeroplane, the last of 24 titles inthe ‘Library’ series

Profumo Scandal; Macmillanresigns. J.F. Kennedy assassinated.Beeching Report recommendsclosing 2000 railway stations;Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar; SamSelvon, The Lonely Londoners;The Beatles, Please, Please Me[album]; Clive King, Stig of theDump

1964 Blyton’s agent and publishersdecide she is not well enough toundertake public appearances

Vietnam War (–1975); Generalelection won by Labour underHarold Wilson; Roald Dahl,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1965 August: The Man who Stopped toHelp; The Boy who came Back -believed to be the last bookswritten by Blyton

Abolition of Death Penalty.Relations Act prohibits racialdiscrimination. Mary Whitehousefounds the National Viewers andListeners Association campaigningagainst ‘bad taste.’

1966 The Dog that Would Go Digging.Part of the “John and Mary”series; eight further titles (–1968)

General Election increases Labourmajority;

Aberfan disaster kills 144; Eightnew universities created

1967 Contacts her brother Hanly for thefirst time in many years. February– May: Knight Books (a division ofBrockhampton) publish theFamous Five series in paperback.September: Kenneth Waters dies

Road Safety Act provides penaltiesfor drink-driving. National Frontfounded; Tom Stoppard,Rosencrantz and Guildenstern areDead; Angela Carter, The MagicToyshop

1968 28 November: dies in her sleep in aHampstead nursing home aged 71

Martin Luther King assassinated;Theatres Act abolishes censorship

1969 January: memorial service held at StJames’s Church, Piccadilly

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrinland on the moon

1970 Darrell Waters Ltd has an estimatedturnover of £500,000

1971 Green Hedges is sold (demolishedin 1973). November: Hugh Pollockdies

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Index

AAdler, Mortimer 12, 17Adventure stories 11, 28, 73, 88, 92,

118, 119, 123, 141–144,149, 155, 167

Aiken, Joan 287Alcott, Louisa M. 226, 227Allen, Walter 26, 40, 41, 278, 289Andersen, Hans Christian 78Arendt, Hannah 238Armada (publishers) 123, 170, 281,

297Atlee, Clement 37, 173, 233Attenborough, John 123, 135Attenborough, Mabel 8Attenborough, Mary 75, 291authorship 50, 74

and celebrity 51, 68, 240new opportunities for in 1920s

27

BBagnold, Edith 101, 262, 293Baker, Mary 123

Bale, Mary 99, 112Ballantyne, R.M. 35, 92Barne, Kitty 244, 294Barrie, J.M. 21, 57, 95, 102, 129,

268Baverstock, Gillian 289Bawden, Nina 287Baxendale, John 74, 83BBC 3, 8, 17, 47, 72, 73, 77, 79,

84, 98, 100, 115, 122, 158,164, 191, 203, 204, 235,241, 251, 260–262, 267,272, 274, 279, 281, 282,294

dislike of Blyton 24, 261Beaconsfield 10, 13, 25, 87, 98, 100,

111, 112, 123, 169, 173,176, 177, 179, 190, 198,202, 208, 279, 285, 289

Beckett, Samuel 260, 296Beek (Eelco Martinus ten Harmsen

van der Beek) 29, 247Beetham, Margaret 194, 204Belloc, Hilaire 56, 66Belsey, Catherine 27, 41

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312 Index

Bennett, Arnold 50, 64, 65, 292Bentley, Derek 184, 190Bertram Mills, Cyril 103, 104, 109Bevin, Ernest 174, 176Bird, Frances 149, 169Blackman, Malorie 2Blyton, Carey

brother of EB 7Blyton, Enid

lifeacquires Bobs (fox terrier) 292adapts Noddy for the stage 2,

12, 29, 248, 250, 264, 287adapts the Famous Five for the

stage 30, 73, 144, 149–151,165, 182, 268

annual outputs of 147appears as panellist on Now’s

Your Chance, BBC radio191

attempts to establish books inthe United States 114

becomes editor of Sunny Stories10, 101, 183

birth 7birth of daughters, Gillian and

Imogen 1, 30buys Green Hedges,

Beaconsfield 10, 87,98

buys Old Thatch, Bourne End10

celebrates ‘Englishness’ in herbooks 27

celebrity status 268charity work 195compares herself to Arthur

Ransome 159complains about 1945 Labour

government 183complains about Take it From

Here 241complains about modern

fiction (1920s) 55

correspondence with PeterMcKellar 264

criticised by rival writers 21criticisms of work 25, 129daily routines 66, 97, 126Darrell Waters Ltd 241, 286,

287death 2, 4, 8, 12, 25, 29, 169,

283, 286decline in reputation 21, 167,

207describes her working methods

36descriptions of 103devotion to Thomas Blyton

(father) 7, 17dislike of comics 77, 190, 191dislike of working mothers

186, 187, 202disruptions caused by WW2 5early contributions to Teacher’s

World 68, 69, 90, 115, 193early life in Beckenham 129early poems published (Nash’s

Magazine ) 51, 53early short stories 28, 165education 38end of marriage with Hugh

Pollock 87, 176establishes Famous Five club

169, 198estimates of income 286final works 140first collection of poetry, Child

Whispers, published 9, 27,49, 58

first short stories published 27,290

fondness for golf 253friendship with Dorothy

Richards 97, 177gets post at Bickley School 52illnesses 12income and earnings 124

Index 313

influence of father on 30, 34influenced by Froebel training

104interviews with 68invited to be defence witness

at the Lady Chatterley’s Lovertrial 296

joins writing group 52launches Enid Blyton’s Magazine

11, 27, 144, 183, 193–197,200–202, 260, 262, 265,269, 277, 282, 295, 296

looks to George Newnes Ltdto publish her work 9

looks to Macmillan andCompany to publish herwork 125

love of circuses 103magazine and newspaper

features on 28, 29, 63, 101marries Kenneth Darrell

Waters 285meets and marries Hugh

Pollock 292monopoly of the children’s

book market 272moves to Beaconsfield 87moves to Elfin Cottage,

Beckenham 10, 68negative relationship with

Theresa Blyton 30networking 74non-fiction contributions to

Teacher’s World 28obituaries of 11obtains teaching post at Bickley

School 52obtains weekly column, ‘From

My Window’ (in Teacher’sWorld ) 47

on book illustration 12parallels with other children’s

writers 151pets 89, 90

photographed by DorothyWilding 240

popularity of 217portrayal of female characters

38, 233portrayed on screen 3portrayed on stage 144, 290press coverage of death of 12publishes autobiography, The

Story of My Life 33, 35, 36,76, 92, 245

publishes Bible stories 192racism 4, 38, 248reading 31, 37, 196, 272relationship with Alison Uttley

25, 100, 179relationship with daughters 8relationship with Eileen Soper

144relationship with publishers 13relationship with readers 199response to negative press 73,

202routines 87, 97, 277royalty payments 124, 279sales figures 101satirised on stage 10, 245, 252schooling 9, 104, 125, 158,

200sensitive to criticism 14serialisation of works 199shunned by BBC 11signs with George Newnes Ltd

27snobbery 215social life 10, 113suffers from heart trouble 292suffers from memory loss 296supports Neville Chamberlain

and appeasement 111supports war effort via Sunny

Stories 27, 47, 73, 78, 88,90, 91, 124, 125, 177, 192,193, 197, 198

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supports Winston Churchill190

theatre (interest in) 12, 15,259, 260

wartime work 111, 177women, attitude to 177work ethic of 32working methods 36works as a governess for the

Thompson family 52, 292writes propaganda stories 118

works‘Adventures of Josie, Click and

Bun, The’ 199Adventure of the Strange Ruby

140, 165, 296Adventures of Noddy, The

(television series) 251, 272Adventures of the Wishing Chair

28, 102, 130, 293The Adventurous Four 15, 102,

116–120, 144–146‘Aunt Jershua’s Earwig’ 54Be Brave Little Noddy 250‘Bom’ stories (televised) 277Bonfire Night for the Secret

Seven 202Boy Next Door, The 140, 165,

294Brer Rabbit Retold 98, 125Brer Rabbit tales 28‘Burma’ (poem) 63Caravan Family, The 125Caravan Goes On, The 103Child Whispers 9, 27, 47, 49,

58, 60, 62, 88Children of Kidillin, The 29Children’s Life of Christ, The

28, 192‘Circus Adventure, A’ 102Circus Days Again 102,

105–107, 116Claudine at St. Clare’s 214Come to the Circus 102

Complete List of Books: EnidBlyton 238

‘Do You--?’ (poem) 52Enchanted Wood, The 28, 102,

128, 130, 284Enid Blyton Book of Bunnies,

The 76, 83Enid Blyton Poetry Book, The

98Enid Blyton’s Bible Stories 192Enid Blyton’s Magazine 11,

27, 144, 183, 193–197,200–202, 260, 262, 265,268, 269, 277, 282, 295,296

‘Fairy Easter Egg, A’ (poem) 57Family at Red-Roofs, The 28,

39, 189, 221Famous Five Adventure (play)

196, 260, 268, 270, 271,275, 277

First Term at Malory Towers217

Five Get into a Fix 277, 279Five Go Adventuring Again

124, 147, 148, 153, 207,278

Five Go Down to the Sea 199Five Go Off in a Caravan 148,

149, 175Five Go Off to Camp 144Five Go to Billycock Hill 147,

199, 201Five Go to Smuggler’s Top 147,

148Five on a Treasure Island 24,

27, 104, 128, 145, 147,148, 152, 155, 278

Five on a Treasure Island (film)124, 144, 272, 296

Five Run Away Together 147,148, 151

Index 315

‘From My Window’ (weeklycolumn in Teacher’s World )47, 63, 64, 89, 210, 259

Fun for the Secret Seven 11, 282‘Garden Party, The’ 77Go Ahead Secret Seven 88Good Work Secret Seven! 199Greatest Book in the World, The

192‘Green Hedges’ (poem) 195,

196, 198, 199, 242, 265,269, 278

Happy Stories 98‘Have You--?’ (poem) 52Here Comes Noddy Again 249,

250Hollow Tree House 102, 189,

212, 294House-at-the-Corner 15, 28,

221, 223, 225, 227, 228Hurrah for Little Noddy 246,

247Hurrah for the Circus! 102,

104, 105In the Fifth at Malory Towers

88Island of Adventure, The 155,

156, 158, 159, 207Last Term at Malory Towers

217, 220, 223‘Little Thug, The’ (poem) 185Magic Faraway Tree, The 28,

128–130Man Who Stopped to Help, The

282Mary Mouse series 28, 124Mischief at St Rollo’s (1943) 29,

125, 182, 212Mr Galliano’s Circus 88,

102–105, 107‘My Summer Prayer’ (poem)

52Mystery of Banshee Towers, The

133, 278

Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage,The 30, 132

Mystery of the Burnt Cottage,The 125, 130

Mystery of the Disappearing Cat,The 30, 130–132

Mystery of the Invisible Thief,The 132, 166

Mystery that Never Was, The140, 278

Nature Readers 126Naughtiest Girl in the School,

The 28, 88, 102, 116, 125,212

Naughty Amelia Jane 125‘Neville Chamberlain’ (poem

111, 134Noddy and his Car 251Noddy and the Aeroplane 249Noddy Goes to Toyland 29, 247Noddy in Toyland 15, 70, 196,

251, 259, 266–268, 271,281, 282

‘Old Thatch’ (poem) 10, 87,96, 97

‘Petronel and His Pot of Glue’61

Play’s the Thing, The 259‘Pretending’ (poem) 54Puzzle for the Secret Seven 277‘Quite Incomparable’ 54Ragamuffin Mystery, The 162,

278‘Railway, The’ (poem) 62Real Fairies 27, 47, 58, 60, 61Red Pixie Book, The 98River of Adventure, The 160,

161Rockingdown Mystery, The 140,

162, 163Round the Year with Enid

Blyton 28, 97Rubabdub Mystery, The 162,

164

316 Index

Secret Island, The 28, 88, 91,93, 95–97, 102, 117, 123,140, 143, 182, 212

Secret Mountain, The 143Secret of Killimooin, The 143,

154Secret of Spiggy Holes, The 116,

123, 140, 144Secret of the Old Mill 154, 165Secret Seven Mystery 200Shadow, the Sheepdog 108Shock for the Secret Seven 166Silver and Gold 292Six Bad Boys, The 15, 28, 30,

38, 181, 183, 185, 186,188, 189, 191, 195, 201,202, 210, 212, 238

Six Cousins Again 208, 210,228, 231, 232

Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm15, 28, 208, 228, 231, 232

Six Enid Blyton Plays 259Snowy Days 98‘Sonnet’ (poem) 52Stories from World History

Retold 98Story Book of Jesus, A 192Story of My Life, The 33, 35,

36, 74, 76, 92, 245, 295‘Story of Our Queen, The’ 195Summer Storm 271Sunny Stories 27, 73, 77, 78,

88, 89, 91, 101, 102, 116,128, 144, 193, 194, 198,199

Tales from the Bible 192Talking Teapot and other Tales,

The 98, 125Teacher’s World 9, 27, 31,

61–63, 65–69, 73–75, 78,82, 98, 101, 102, 114, 116,143, 173, 182, 263

Ten-Minute Tales 98, 122, 126‘The Reward of Virtue’ 54

Third Year at Malory Towers220

Three Boys and a Circus 29,102

Three Cheers Secret Seven 166Touchstone, The (play) 271,

296Treasure Hunters, The 140‘Trumped’ 54Twins at St. Clare’s, The 128,

207, 214Upper Fourth at Malory Towers

218‘Vantage In’ 54Wake Up! 60‘Wizard’s Magic Necklace, The’

77Wonderful Adventure, The 28,

92, 141Zoo Book, The 27, 75, 76

Blyton, Hanly 7, 17, 235, 291, 297brother of EB 291

Blyton, Theresa 8, 209, 291, 295mother of EB 8, 209

Blyton, Thomas Carey 7father of EB 7

Bobsauthorship 240

Bondfield, Margaret 211Bonham Carter, Helena 3, 4

portrays EB 3Boston, Anne 118, 135Bourdieu, Pierre 194, 204Bowlby, John 184Bracken, Brendan 114Brazil, Angela 31, 56, 92, 213Brenkley, Stephen 5, 16Brent-Dyer, Elinor 213Brimble, Lionel John (‘Jack’) 126,

127Brittain, Vera 74, 207, 219, 234Brooke, Rupert 240Burgess, Guy 164Butler, Joan (Robert Alexander) 65

Index 317

read by EB 64

CCaine, Barbara 13, 18Carrington, Noel 133Carroll, Lewis’ (Charles Dodgson)

35, 57, 268Cartland, Barbara 3, 23, 24, 182,

203, 240, 255Cass, Ronnie 253, 256Castle, Barbara 187, 203, 212, 219,

234, 235Cederwell, William 114, 120, 134,

135Chamberlain, Neville 111, 134, 293Chaplin, Charlie 103, 294Chase, Phyllis 8, 9, 17, 57, 58, 74,

76Chesterton, G.K. 66, 100Childhood at Green Hedges, A 3, 32Chodorow, Nancy 231, 235Christie, Agatha 114, 123, 131, 132,

148, 162, 270, 278, 279Christie Murray, David 192Churchill, Winston 2, 10, 76, 119,

125, 128, 150, 160, 173,176, 190, 237, 239, 293

Cixous, Hélène 244, 255Clarke, Roy 290Classic Media 287, 290Clay, Catherine 74, 76, 79, 83Clowning 281

Royal Court theatre 281Coetzee. Liesel 27, 41Collier, Patrick 68, 79, 82Colwell, Eileen 241Complete List of Books: Enid Blyton

238Connolly, Cyril 97, 108, 114Cooper, Duff 113, 114Cooper, Susan 287Corelli, Marie 11, 83Coren, Alan 6, 17

Cox, Pamela 287Creed, Barbara 209, 234Crofts, Freeman Wills 131, 162Crompton, Richmal

career 70verdict on EB 11‘William’ books 70, 123, 242

Crosbie, Mary 107, 109Crossland, May 8

D

Dahl, Roald 26, 287, 296, 297Dale, Norman 116Darrell Waters Ltd. 180, 241, 286,

287, 295, 296Davies, Marjorie 13, 17Davis, Julia 4

portrays EB 4De Beauvoir, Simone 229, 235, 295De Brunhoff, Jean 90Defoe, Daniel 92, 94De Fries, Lewis 280, 289Delafield, E.M. 49, 114De la Mare, Walter 63, 294Delattre, Florence 8Dennison, Matthew 5, 16detective fiction 133, 140, 162Dickin, Maria (‘Busy Bees’ club) 198Dickson, Lovat 248, 251Dinnage, Rosemary 31–33, 37, 42Disney, Walt 103, 280, 293Doyle, Arthur Conan 59, 291Du Maurier, Daphne 27, 218, 279

E

Ede, James Chuter 184, 190, 191Eden, Anthony 161Empire 15, 37, 55, 62, 63, 113, 141,

157, 159, 197Enid , BBC TV 3Evans Brothers 75, 193, 201

318 Index

publishes Enid Blyton’s Magazine27, 201

Evans, Noel 125, 193, 204

FFairlie Bruce, Dorita 213, 217Feaver, William 30, 41, 286, 290Food 37, 59, 94, 113, 117, 149,

150, 174, 188, 208, 228,230, 237, 249, 296

in EB’s works 37Frayn, Michael 2Freud, Sigmund 148Fry, Christopher 260, 274Fyleman, Rose 39, 58, 61, 77

GGalsworthy, John 50, 103, 292Garbett, Cyril 149, 169Gardiner, Juliet 113, 122, 134, 135Garfield, Leon 287Garner, Alan 25, 296Garnett, David 181, 203George Newnes Ltd 9, 27, 53, 57,

72, 75publishes Sunny Stories 27

Gibson, Guy 158Giles, Judy 115, 134Glasgow Koste, V. 129, 135Goebbels, Joseph 113, 173

wartime propaganda 113Graeme, Kenneth 13, 57, 129Greene, Graham 114, 121, 279Greenfield, George

Blyton’s agent 178, 295describes Blyton at work 11, 101dislikes Kenneth Darrell Waters

10, 11, 30, 101, 178, 210,254

notes Blyton’s decline 262Green Philip 265Grenfell, Joyce 245, 246, 253, 255

satirises EB 11Groom, Arthur 244, 245, 255

HHadley, Elaine 119Haggard, Henry Rider 159Hall, Christine 165, 170Harris, Joel Chandler 78

Brer Rabbit series adapted by EB78

Hartmann, Christine 288Harwood, Ronald 151, 169Heath, Roland 122, 139, 144, 158,

181, 190, 243, 244EB’s editor at Macmillan 243

Hediger, Heini 90, 108Heidegger, Martin 148Heilgers, Louise 80Hennessey, Peter 160, 170, 183,

203, 237, 254, 256, 275Henriques, Basil 183, 188Hildick, Wallace 147, 168, 213Hill, Susan 6, 7, 17

Hilliard, Christopher 50, 51, 53,55, 80

Hitler, Adolf 106, 111, 113, 119,120, 122, 173, 241, 292

HMT Empire Windrush 249Hodder and Stoughton 1, 123, 139,

144, 145, 152, 175, 282EB signs with 5sales of EBs books 123, 144

Hodder Williams, Paul 144, 168delivers eulogy at EB’s funeral 1objects to suggestions for a

biography 1Hodgson-Burnett, Frances 57, 291Horrible Histories (CBBC) 2, 16

portrayal of EB in 2Hubback, Eva 211Hull, James 103Hunt, Peter 26, 29, 37, 41, 56, 81,

129, 136, 151, 169

Index 319

IIsaacs, Susan 65, 82

JJauss, Hans Robert 24, 40Johns, ‘Captain’ W.E.

asks EB’s advice 71colonial adventure stories 71life and career 70sales, compared to EB 70

Johnson, Alan 7, 17Joseph, Michael 51, 52, 80Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure

(revue) 245, 255, 264Juvenile delinquency 15, 28, 181,

188, 202

KKästner, Erich 140Kavanaugh, Simon 279, 280, 289Kiberd, Declan 213, 235Kipling, Rudyard 13, 63, 102, 125Knight, Laura 103Knight, Stephen 133, 136Kristeva, Julia 209Kynaston, David 175, 180, 234,

235, 254

LLawrence, D.H. 253, 273, 292

Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial 253,273

League of Coloured Peoples 158Leavis, Q.D. 48, 49, 53, 79Lehmann, Rosamond 211, 234Lewis, C.S. 129, 295Lewis, Lorna 82, 122, 128, 135Lewis, Michael 191Libraries 23, 64, 74, 239

Blyton’s popularity amongstreaders 71, 239

Lofting, Hugh 56Lucas, E.V. 56, 66Lutterworth Press 125, 189

publishes work of EB 125Lynn, Vera 115, 118, 150

MMacAlister Brew, Josephine 189, 203Macaulay, Rose 49, 68, 82MacGregor, Sue 282, 283, 289

interviews Blyton for BBC radio283

Mackenzie, Donald 182, 203, 234Maclean, Donald 164Macmillan and Company

agrees to publish work of EB 154asks for a war-time story 6publishes Bible stories 192publishes the Adventure series

139reputation 192tries to publish the Noddy books

in the United States 251Macmillan, Harold 125, 201, 253,

296Maine, Margo D. 210, 234Mangum, Teresa 89, 107Manlove, Colin 129, 130, 136Mansfield, Katherine 27, 31, 49, 64,

292Marchant, Bessie 92Marryat, Frederick 92Marsh, Ngaio 162Masefield, John 36, 42, 63, 104, 109Matthews, Stanley 36, 42, 239Maugham, W. Somerset 53, 279Maxwell, Glyn 3Mayer, Robert 175McCarthy, Helen 211, 234McConachie, Bruce 115, 134McCracken, Esther 271McCulloch, Derek (‘Uncle Mac’)

261

320 Index

McEwan, Ian 6, 17McKellar, Peter 264, 281McLaren, Duncan 12, 30, 41Meade, L.T. 92Mee, Arthur 34, 42, 291Methuen 25, 122, 125, 130, 192,

294publishes work of EB 130

Meyer, Bertie 260, 265, 271, 274Middleton, Tim 115, 134Millar, Leonard 191Miller Mackay, Lydia 59, 60, 81Miller, Nancy K. 233, 235Milne, A.A. 39, 56, 57, 61, 68, 72,

82, 90, 122, 263, 286, 292influence of 3interviewed by EB 68

Milne, Christopher Robin 61, 68,82, 83

interviewed by EB 68remembers EB 3

Mitchison, Naomi 59, 74, 81, 90,108, 170

Moi, Toril 38, 43, 232, 235Morris, Marcus 191Morton, H.V. 175Motion, Andrew 97Muir, Willa 114, 134Mussolini, Benito 106, 292Myers, Peter 253, 256

NNasser, Gamal Abdel 161Nesbit, Edith 21, 57, 117, 129Norman, Diana 284, 289

OOrwell, George 146, 150, 168, 169,

184, 200, 203, 204, 295‘Boy’s Weeklies’ 146, 168on Englishness 150

Osborne, John 260, 296

PPantomime 29, 251, 259, 262–268Paper rationing 122, 123Pearce, Philippa 287, 296Pemberton, Sydney 191Poe, Edgar Allen 163Pollock, Hugh (first husband)

divorced by EB 30EB attracted by 76encourages EB’s career 14joins Home Guard 294marries EB 292

Pollock, Ida 83‘Pollock, Mary’. See Blyton, EnidPotter, Beatrix 2, 21, 57, 70, 280Pound, Ezra 53, 80Priestley, J.B. 66, 74, 103, 122, 164,

273, 294Pritchett, V.S. 141, 168Psychobitches (Sky Arts) 4publishing industry

1920s expansion 48, 73new market for children’s

literature 73war-time 122

QQuick Before They Catch Us 281Quigley, Janet 261Quill club, the 52

RRacism 4, 23, 38, 204, 248, 249Ramsay, C. Clarke 239, 255, 256Rank Organisation 272Ransome, Arthur 39, 93, 101,

140–142, 159, 168, 286Raymond, Harold 3, 16Read, Herbert 152Reid, Beryl 290Reimer, Mavis 220, 235Rennell, Tony 174, 180

Index 321

Reynolds, Kimberley 18, 41, 59, 81,150, 169

Rice, Emma 3, 6, 17Richards, Dorothy 97, 177, 293,

294Richards, Frank 213Richards, Jeffrey 135, 169, 217, 235Robbins, Ruth 78, 84, 229, 235Robeson, Paul 157, 158Robinson Crusoe 92, 95, 108Rogers, Eric 1, 254, 283, 286

Blyton’s business manager 1Rowley, Alex 75, 259Rowling, J.K. 2Rowse, A.L. 122, 135Rubenstein, Michael 273, 275

lawyer for Penguin books 273Rudd, David 12, 14, 16, 18, 26, 29,

33, 35, 36, 38, 41–43, 83,145, 168, 255, 256

Russell-Cruise, Hilda 63, 74

SSage, Lorna 238, 254Sampson, George 62, 82Saville, Malcolm 69, 70, 72, 73, 75,

116, 192, 261Sayers, Dorothy L. 131School stories 2, 28, 31, 39, 128,

146, 182, 208, 213, 216,220, 232, 287

Severn, David 147Sewell, Anna 35, 89Shelagh, Delaney 260, 296Shepard, Ernest 56, 68, 72Shinwell, Emmanuel (‘Manny’) 174,

175Sidney, Philip 59, 81Sims, Joan 252Sitwell, Edith 125, 127Skeggs, Beverley 118, 135Smallwood, Imogen

childhood impressions of EB 32

describes Kenneth Darrell Waters178

publishes A Childhood at GreenHedges 3, 32

Smith, Dodie 262, 271, 295, 296Smith, Eleanor 49, 103Soper, Eileen 126, 144, 152–154

illustrations for EB’s work 126,144, 151

Spain, Nancy 17, 241, 255Spring, Howard 103Stephens, Frances 260, 274Stevenson, Robert Louis 21, 147,

159, 170Stoney, Barbara 8, 9, 12, 25, 30, 59,

75, 91, 103, 115, 177, 242,246, 259, 262, 264, 267,270, 271, 277, 281, 282,286

Streafeild, Noel 69, 71, 83, 88, 101,103, 107, 114, 116, 221,244, 261, 293

career 88, 221Struther, Jan (‘Mrs Miniver’) 115Suez Crisis 161, 296Summerfield, Penny 211, 234Summerfield, Tony 12, 27, 29, 81,

108, 250, 255, 256Sutcliffe, Jean 261, 262

TTake it From Here (BBC radio) 241Taylor, Elizabeth 212Taylor, Millie 264, 274Temple, Joan 271Temple, William, Archbishop of

Canterbury 127Theatre

1950s 15, 281EB’s childhood memories of 282pantomime 259, 262, 263

The Lord Chamberlain Regrets (revue)252, 256

322 Index

Thirkell, Angela 65, 100Tindall, Gillan 25Tinkler, Penny 211, 234Titmuss, Richard 211, 234Todd, Barbara Euphan 61, 69, 72,

73, 82, 261Tomlinson, George 174, 175Tonkin, Boyd 4, 16Treadgold, Mary 116, 294Trease, Geoffrey 25, 40, 123, 140,

141, 167, 168, 171, 216,217, 235, 255, 293

criticises EB’s school stories 216encounters EB 2

Tredinnick, Robert 272Treneman, Ann 5, 16Tresilian, Stuart 158

illustrations for EB’s work 158Trocadero plc 287Trotter, David 150, 169Tucker, Nicholas 14, 18, 41, 147,

168Tynan, Kenneth 267, 275

UUttley, Alison

career 73hostile encounters with EB 100jealousy of EB 261

Vvan Gyseghem, André 265Voilier, Claude 287

WWait, Peter 25, 26Wallace, Edgar 76Wall, Barbara 27, 41, 119, 135War-time publishing 122Waters, Kenneth Darrell

appearance and manner 241death 11, 282

dislike of by George Greenfield282, 283

EB marries 285part of Darrel Waters Ltd 286pride in EB’s success 242

Waugh, Evelyn 88, 175, 294Webb, Marion St John 68Welch, Colin 22, 23, 25, 40

attacks Noddy 22Westall, Robert 287West, Anthony 149, 169West, Rebecca 31, 49, 74, 80, 125,

127, 212Whelan, Gemma 2

portrays EB 2Whitcombe, Eleanor 270White, David 204, 246, 255Wigglesworth, Katherine 100, 123

records meeting between EB andAlison Uttley 100

Wilding, Dorothy 240, 241, 255,268

photographs EB 268Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing

‘A Gnome Called Shorthouse’?(TV play) 290

Williams, Gertrude 211Wilson, Cecil 267, 275Wilson, Jacqueline 2, 165, 170, 288Wodehouse, P.G. 65Woolf, Leonard 67Woolf, Virginia 27, 49, 64, 65, 68,

82, 240, 292–294Wootton, David 152, 153, 169Working mothers controversy 187,

188, 208World War Two

disruption of publishing industry14

effect on Beaconsfield 173fears of invasion 112the importance of reading as a

pastime 37Writing schools 50, 56Wyss, Johann David 92