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It became a weekly publication in 1937 and changed its name to Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories, finally becoming Sunny Stories. 1922 saw the publication of her first book, Child Whispers, a slim volume of poetry, and in 1923 a couple more books were published as well as over a hundred and twenty shorter pieces-stories, verses, reviews and plays.Įnid Blyton worked on a number of educational books in the 1920s-30s, among other things, and in 1926 she began writing and editing a fortnightly magazine, Sunny Stories for Little Folks. Stories and articles were accepted for publication by various periodicals, including Teacher’s World, and she also wrote verses for greetings cards. Since a couple of earlier published poems (including the one printed in the Arthur Mee magazine) have never been traced, “Have You…?” is the first recorded publication of an Enid Blyton work.Įnid persevered with her writing and, in the early 1920s, began to achieve success. In 1917 one of Enid’s poems, “Have You…?” was accepted for publication by Nash’s Magazine. It hung over me for a very long time, and gave me pleasant shivers.”

What appealed to her “wasn’t so much the story as the strange ‘feel’ of the tale, the ‘atmosphere’ as we call it. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island, but the one she loved best of all, and read at least a dozen times, was The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. Grimm’s fairy-tales she considered “cruel and frightening” and, although she liked Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, some of them were “too sad.” Among her favourite books were Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” books and R. “It gave me my thirst for knowledge of all kinds, and taught me as much as ever I learnt at school.” She was fascinated by Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia: That’s the kind of book I would know how to write.'”Įnid Blyton enjoyed myths and legends too, and poetry and annuals, and magazines like Strand Magazineand Punch. “Those were real children… ‘When I grow up I will write books about real children,’ I thought.

She said of the characters in Little Women:

Among the books she read were Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies and Louisa M. 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.Įnid loved reading.

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