Andrew Maunder - Enid Blyton - A Literary Life

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The production of this book has involved the help of a good many people. Particular thanks are owed to the following: Rosie Miles, David Rudd, Kari Dorme, Valerie Grove, Julius Green, Lizza Aiken, Margaret Grace and Mark OHanlon. Id also like to thank Sarah Lawrance, Kristopher McKie, Josie Summer and the collections team at Seven Stories for arranging access and granting permissions to use Blyton-related material; likewise staff in the British Library reading rooms and London Metropolitan Archives; Alysoun Saunders, archivist for Macmillan Publishers International Limited and Springer Nature; Catherine Flynn, archivist at Penguin Random House; Hannah Lowery, archivist at Bristol University Special Collections and Jill Sullivan, Assistant Keeper at University of Reading Special Collections Department; to Alexandra Antscherl and Sharon Rubin at Hachette for permission to use Hachette and Hodder and Stoughton archive material, and to Rebecca Hinsley and Emily Wood at Palgrave. BBC copyright material is reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation (all rights reserved). Tony Summerfield of the Enid Blyton Society has very kindly answered numerous questions about Blyton and her writing and allowed me to use material from the Societys website. Finally, I am very grateful to the members of Enid Blytons family, notably Sophie Smallwood and Sara Lane, who have also generously helped with queries and have allowed me to quote from Blytons letters and make use of photographs and other material. Any errors in the book are my own.