Blyton in a sentence

Blyton's marriage to Pollock became troubled, and according to Crowe's memoir, Blyton began a series of affairs, including a lesbian relationship with one of the children's nannies.

Racism, xenophobia and sexism Accusations of racism in Blyton's books were first made by Lena Jeger in a Guardian article published in 1966, in which she was critical of Blyton's The Little Black Doll, published a few months earlier.

Better yet, this retool of Blyton, like Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, can be seen as a morality tale showing what cursed things happen when covetous Britons nick stuff from other cultures.

Pollock was said to have been furious when he came home to hear of Blyton's unsuitable entertaining of young men.

Along with it came the challenge that I was old enough to start reading "real books", rather than Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven.

Farming is no longer the Enid Blyton-esque jolly-good-day’s-work-and-a-pint-of-ale-for-your-trouble! it used to be.

One said: “For everyone using the ‘don’t judge by modern standards’ line - Enid Blyton had a manuscript rejected by Macmillan in 1960 on the grounds of xenophobic content.

Plans to commemorate Enid Blyton on a 50p coin have been blocked by Royal Mint because of the author’s “racist, sexist, homophobic” views.

There was controversy over the decision to axe the Blyton coin, of course.

When we were in the fourth and fifth standard, we read Enid Blyton and then Agatha Christie.

You’ll be clued up enough to make Fifty Shades look like an Enid Blyton book before you know it.

Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943.

Blyton further explained in her biography that "If I tried to think out or invent the whole book, I could not do it.

Blyton herself wrote that "my love of children is the whole foundation of all my work".

Blyton rewrote the stories so they could be adapted into cartoons, which appeared in Mickey Mouse Weekly in 1951 with illustrations by George Brook.

Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into almost 90 languages.

Blyton's daily routine varied little over the years.

Blyton's eldest daughter Gillian remembered her rather differently however, as "a fair and loving mother, and a fascinating companion".

Blyton's first full-length adventure novel, The Secret Island, was published in 1938, featuring the characters of Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora.

Blyton's granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood, wrote a new Noddy book to celebrate the character's 60th birthday, 46 years after the last book was published; Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle (2009) was illustrated by Robert Tyndall.