Enid blyton short biography wikipedia

A prolific writer, she completed over books during her lifetime. She is in the top 10 all-time bestseller lists — her books having sold over million copies. Shy in her relations with the public, Enid Blyton revealed little of her private life.

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She was born in the late s and was brought up in Buckingham. She took Froebel training and became a governess to a family of boys in Surrey and this experience encouraged her to set up a school for boys. In , she married her first husband — H. Pollock with whom she had two daughters. She married her second husband Kenneth Waters in Her books were controversial amongst literary critics and librarians.

In recent decades, the books have also been criticised for racist, sexist and xenophobic stereotypes. She said her books reflected her way of looking at the world.