Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
1. Jan. 1989 · Imogen Smallwood. 3.71. 34 ratings10 reviews. Genres Memoir. Hardcover. First published January 1, 1989. Book details & editions. About the author. Imogen Smallwood. 2 books5 followers. Imogen Mary Pollock Smallwood. Daughter of Enid Blyton and sister of Gillian Baverstock and Rosemary Pollock. Friends & Following.
- Imogen Smallwood (Author of A childhood at Green Hedges) - Goodreads
October 27, 1935. Died. February 28, 2022. Genre. Memoir....
- Imogen Smallwood (Author of A childhood at Green Hedges) - Goodreads
14. Nov. 2009 · Hier sollte eine Beschreibung angezeigt werden, diese Seite lässt dies jedoch nicht zu.
Buy A Childhood at Green Hedges: A Fragment of Autobiography by Enid Blyton's Daughter First Edition by Smallwood, Imogen (ISBN: 9780416126327) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
- (5)
- Imogen Smallwood
- Compiled by Anita Bensoussane
- Early Family Life
- Enid and Her Father, Thomas Carey Blyton
- Enid and Her Mother, Theresa Mary Blyton
- First School
- Childhood Games
- Books That Enid Read as A Girl
- Senior School
- Her Parents' Separation
- Early Writing
Enid Mary Blyton was born on 11th August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, a two-bedroom flat above a shop in East Dulwich, South London. Shortly after her birth her parents moved to Beckenham in Kent and it was there, in a number of different houses over the years, that Enid Blyton spent her childhood. She had two younger brothers—Hanly, born in 1899, an...
Enid's father, Thomas, was a cutlery salesman as a young man. He then joined his uncle's firm selling Yorkshire cloth and, later still, set up his own business as a clothing wholesaler. He and his daughter had a close, loving relationship—both had dark hair and alert brown eyes, and shared an appetite for knowledge and a zest for life. Together the...
Although she adored her father, Enid's relationship with her mother, Theresa, was more turbulent. Theresa was a tall, raven-haired woman whose life revolved around housework. She was not creative and artistic like Thomas, and did not share his interests. She expected her daughter to help with household chores but gave her sons a lot more freedom, w...
Enid began her schooldays at a small school run by two sisters in a house called Tresco, almost opposite the Blyton home. As an adult, Enid Blyton said about the school: Enid's days at Tresco were happy. She was a bright girl, blessed with a good memory, and she shone at art and nature study, though she struggled with mathematics.
Games that Enid played as a child included Red Indians, Burglars and Policemen, building dens and playing with tops, hoops and marbles. Indoors she played card games, Snakes and Ladders, Draughts and Chess. Her father thought that all young children should learn to play Chess because "... if they have any brains it will train them to think clearly,...
Enid loved reading. Among the books she read were Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies and Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women. She said of the characters in Little Women:
In 1907 Enid Blyton became a pupil at St. Christopher's School for Girls in Beckenham. She was not a boarder, like so many of the characters in her books, but a day-girl. Intelligent, popular and full of fun, she threw herself wholeheartedly into school life. During her time at St. Christopher's she organised concerts, played practical jokes, becam...
Thomas and Theresa had little in common and grew more and more unhappy and frustrated in their marriage as the years passed. They had frequent violent rows, causing their children great distress. At night-time, Enid, Hanly and Carey would sit at the top of the stairs with their arms around one another for comfort, listening to their parents' heated...
Deprived of Thomas's support and inspiration, Enid was now more than ever at the mercy of her mother, with whom she did not see eye to eye. To assuage her unhappiness she took to locking herself in her bedroom and writing compulsively, setting a pattern which was to be repeated in adulthood. She had a vivid imagination and had known for some time t...
A Fine Defence Of Enid Blyton includes extracts from a rare interview with her only surviving daughter, Imogen Smallwood, and contributions from her official biographer, Barbara Stoney, as well...
15. Nov. 2009 · It came one afternoon when Blyton’s only surviving child, Imogen Smallwood, 74, visited the set. “I was really worried about it – we all were,” admits the producer Lee Morris, who had invited...
