Enid blyton biography summary of thomas jefferson

Enid Blyton (1897 - 1968) was, and remains, one of the most popular of authors for children.

Enid blyton biography summary of thomas jefferson

Her books made her a household name: her magazine writing for children put before the public much of her day-to-day life: a life lived in the leafy English countryside that seemed blissful and idyllic. We now know, particularly from Barbara Stoney's biography of Blyton, 'the whole story behind this hardworking, complex, often difficult, child-like woman, whose relationships with those close to her were not always of the best and whose life was far removed from the sunny world she created in her writings.'¹ Among those who were close to her, and who failed to come to terms with her complexity, was her first husband, Hugh Alexander Pollock.²  Pollock was a native of Ayr, and this brief note is an attempt to marshall what we know of him.
When Blyton first met Pollock he was an editor with her publishers, Newnes, in London.

A career amid books was, perhaps, to be expected of a man who