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Blyton's marriage to Pollock was troubled for years, and according to Crowe's memoir, she had a series of affairs, [98] including lesbian relationships with one of the children's nannies and with Lola Onslow, an artist who illustrated Blyton’s 1924 title The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies.
They got married quietly at the Bromley Register Office, where no one from Blyton or Hugh’s family was invited. They lived together first in Chelsea and then moved together to Elfin Cottage in Beckenham in 1926.
Aug 25, 2019 · In 1924, at Bromley Register Office, with none of her family present, Enid married Hugh Pollock, DSO, a soldier turned publisher, a divorcee, eight years her senior. Enid gave up teaching, concentrated on her writing (using just two fingers, with her typewriter perched on her knees, she could produce 6,000 words a day), and hoped to start a family.
- EARLY FAMILY LIFE. 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.
- ENID AND HER FATHER, THOMAS CAREY BLYTON. 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.
- ENID AND HER MOTHER, THERESA MARY BLYTON (NEE HARRISON) Although she adored her father, Enid's relationship with her mother, Theresa, was more turbulent.
- FIRST SCHOOL. 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
In 1924 she married Hugh Pollock, an editor at her publishers, and in 1929 their first child Gillian was born followed by her second child Imogen in 1931. They soon moved to Green Hedges, a...
Feb 8, 2013 · In August 1924, Enid Blyton married Major Hugh Alexander Pollock. He was the editor at the publishing house George Newnes, and he published some of Enid’s books. Enid Blyton was an incredibly prolific writer.
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Mar 14, 2009 · They were married for 19 years but, as Enid's career took off in the 1930s, Hugh grew increasingly depressed and took to nightly drinking sessions in his cellar. Enid ceased writing long enough...
