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Enid (2009)
Edwardian child Enid Blyton begins to tell stories to her brothers as an escape from their parents' rows before the father deserts the family. While training as a teacher after the Great War she sends her stories to publishers; one of them, Hugh Pollock, takes her on and also marries her. They have two daughters, but Enid is a terrible mother, letting a nanny raise them while she, ironically, is bestowing treats on anonymous children who worship her for her stories. She is completely self-absorbed,driving Hugh to drink and then to another woman. Enid uses the children as emotional blackmail to get a divorce on her terms before marrying Kenneth Waters, a weak man similar to her father. After World War Two she is as popular as ever, despite accusations of using a syndicate to pen her books, and she carries on, adored by children who do not know her true nature, for another 20 years before her death in 1968.
25 August 1971, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1965, Eccles, Manchester, England, UK
26 May 1966, Golders Green, London, England, UK
1974, Berkshire, England, UK
24 February 2001, England, UK
27 September 1947, Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
23 July 1960, Dublin, Ireland
17 October 1974, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
