Enid Blyton - Dulwich

[Mick Mac]

Just watched the biopic "Enid" on BBC4.

She has a blue plaque opposite the Plough - does anyone know how long she lived in Dulwich or what she did when she lived here?

She died in 1968 aged 71.

[Narnia]

Enid

This should help! I used to read her a lot.......Born in Lordship Lane

[SteveT]

One of the best things I have seen Helena Bonham Carter play.

Still selling 8 million a year, very impressive.

The treatment of her own children was dismissive, and were dumped into boarding school at the first opportunity.

[SimonM]

I thought she was only there for the first two weeks or so after she was born?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

No Simon, even the gentry don't send their children away to school at birth.

[brum]

She must still have been a baby when her family moved to Beckenham. I think that is what Simon meant.

[computedshorty]

?

[brum]

Not wanting to be pedantic, but if this is correct and her brothers were born in Beckenham then Enid was only 2 or less when the family moved from Lordship Lane (or am I missing something)

[computedshorty]

?

[SimonM]

PGC was just getting her own back because she was irked by my euphonium jibe...:))

[woofmarkthedog]

SteveT Wrote:

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> One of the best things I have seen Helena Bonham

> Carter play.

>

>

> Still selling 8 million a year, very impressive.

>

> The treatment of her own children was dismissive,

> and were dumped into bording school at the first

> opportunity.

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Hey, It was great at boarding school BTW, I went aged 4.

I turned out just fine by reading Enid Blyton ( The Mystery of the Missing Necklace where fatty hides in the waxworks museum is still in my top 10)

See SteveT, jumping to conclusions an all that, stand at the end of my bed with a stack of books on your head

W**F

*gives self a wedgie & flushes own head down the toilet*

[SteveT]

Woof wrote:- Hey, It was great at boarding school BTW, I went aged 4.

I don't think they enjoyed the experience, and they had far more feelings for their father.

Blyton was bordering on a cow like disposition as a parent figure, a selfish, manipulative, unfeeling bitch.

I loved the famous five books as a kid though.

[HonaloochieB]

I would have loved being sent to boarding school as a kid, Billy Bunter and Jennings books made the whole experience seem great fun.

All rags in the quad, shipping master's studies and getting into bother with the archbeako.

I've heard tell of cold baths and buggery but the Famous Five and Jennings & Dabyshire never went in for that sort of thing so I'm putting that down to malicious rumours.

Sadly my mater and pater were unable to stump up the required oof for a place so it was not to be.

How different things might have been.

Edited for a couple of fearful bishes.

[SimonM]

I was a big Jennings fan too, and loved to rip off some of the books' argot when at my lowly grammar school. "Sir gave us per", I would chirp merrily, when challenged as to how I dared do some proscribed activity or other...

When the Harry Potter books first came to prominence, my initial reaction on reading them was that Rowling owed far more to Anthony Buckeridge than Tolkien. Evidently some hack or other agreed with me, as Anthony Buckeridge, to my amazement still alive although well over 90, was interviewed. It turned out he received practically pennies for his wonderful output...

Bunter appealed too, but for different reasons, involving tuck-boxes and postal orders from one's aunt. I would loved to have received postal orders from aunts...

Blyton's books were fun in their way, but simply did not inspire the same yearnings. There were no caves or smugglers on Blackpool or Scarborough beaches, and I could never train our dog to go "arf arf!"

[womanofdulwich]

i always thought I would go to Mallory towers and arrive on a horse at the beginning of term. I am just about over this............

[woofmarkthedog]

SteveT Wrote:

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> Woof wrote:- Hey, It was great at boarding school

> BTW, I went aged 4.

>

>

> I don't think they enjoyed the experience, and

> they had far more feelings for their father.

>

> Blyton was bordering on a cow like disposition as

> a parent figure, a selfish, manipulative,

> unfeeling bitch.

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So you've met my mother then !

Which is nice

W**F

[daizie]

woof that's sad .. :( Some people are so bloody great it makes you want to cry and some people really are so wrong that i dont have words :(

[SteveT]

Woof if your mother dished it out like Blyton, you have my heartfelt sympathy.