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Enid Blyton
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Ive heard that the childrens author Enid Blyton hated kids.Anyone heard this before?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.She had two daughters .One ,Imogen,said that her mother was a cold distant woman and their step father a mean bad tempered man ..yet her other daughter ,Gillian, says the opposite.Enid Blyton was not close to her own mother and her father left them when she was a child to live with another woman with whom he had a family .She herself was married twice.She was a teacher before she become a well known writer and opened her own school.
They do say she didn't like children and also played tennis in the buff ! Whether or not this is true is hard to say.An excellent biography of her by Barbara Stoney is well worth reading.In fact I think her daughters are still living.
They do say she didn't like children and also played tennis in the buff ! Whether or not this is true is hard to say.An excellent biography of her by Barbara Stoney is well worth reading.In fact I think her daughters are still living.
Yeah I think the reputation comes from her daughter's statements that she was cold and un-loving... I think her first love really was writing! And bearing in mind her phenomenal output, there was probably no time left to spend with her kids let alone any others.
She seems to have been one of these emotionally brittle women who seeks to present a perfect, almost saccharine life, but had the steel and determination to contrive this. She also had a lesbian affair. This is completely irrelevant, but never recognised.
She seems to have been one of these emotionally brittle women who seeks to present a perfect, almost saccharine life, but had the steel and determination to contrive this. She also had a lesbian affair. This is completely irrelevant, but never recognised.