Meeting Enid Blyton?

Kirrin · Post by **Kirrin** » 13 Jun 2005, 10:23

Has anyone been lucky enough to have met Enid? if you could would you or would you be scared?

Belly · Post by **Belly** » 14 Jun 2005, 19:50

I wrote to her daughter and knew where she lived, I hoped against hope I would be invited to tea one day

Still waiting...

I was so disappointed and upset when I realised Enid had died before I was born. She felt so 'alive' to me and I felt like I loved her as a child as much as any relation!

Kirrin · Post by **Kirrin** » 15 Jun 2005, 16:07

Was it gillian or imogen who you wrote to?

Belly · Post by **Belly** » 15 Jun 2005, 16:17

Gillian..after pestering the publishers for a while imagine my delight when I received a lovely handwritten letter from Gillian, answering all my queries where she could and autographing a press cutting of her, Imogen and her mother bent over a typewriter!

Kirrin · Post by **Kirrin** » 15 Jun 2005, 16:35

Really I know where Gillian lives too do you think she would write back to me?
It would be so nice to meet Enids daughter she looks like her too!

Miranda · Post by **Miranda** » 27 Jul 2005, 19:13

When I was a child, there was a tobacconist and sweetshop near where we lived, kept by a lady called Mrs Tooth. She was the spitting image of Enid Blyton (going by the photo on the dust jackets), and I managed to convince myself that she was probably her sister.
Mrs Tooth was very kind, and sometimes used to give me and my sister free sweeties (not so good for teeth!)
I therefore feel that I have sort of met EB.

Kirrin · Post by **Kirrin** » 28 Jul 2005, 16:24

what a lovely story!

Moonraker · Post by **Moonraker** » 28 Jul 2005, 19:11

Something to get your teeth into!

Kirrin · Post by **Kirrin** » 29 Jul 2005, 14:38

very true!

HeatherS · Post by **HeatherS** » 01 Aug 2005, 00:38

I would love to have met Enid. The only problem would be if in harsh reality, she really wasn't all I imagined.
I've voted yes, but in thinking further I'm not really that sure.
I see her as a kind, gentle but businesslike person, prone to laughing out loud and speaking her mind. If she wasn't like this in real life, I think I may be disappointed if I met her.

Kirrin · Post by **Kirrin** » 01 Aug 2005, 10:46

This is the problem we so often have a certain image of people in our head!

maddy · Post by **maddy** » 05 Feb 2007, 10:16

erm.. no. Enid Blyton died before i was born.
if i had met her.. that would probably mean that i had an encounter with a ghost.. *shudders* i hv no intentions of meeting a ghost..

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 24 Feb 2007, 19:58

I went for no, simply because - I don't know; I think that I would have too many expectations and could have ended up being disappointed. Was she a 'nice' person? I've read conflicting reports and have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that she didn't like children much although I could be grossly mistaken there!

PeterPan · Post by **PeterPan** » 28 Feb 2007, 15:02

I would like to have met Enid Blyton.

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 21 Apr 2007, 20:17

What if you had been disappointed, any of you? What if she had been less than you expected? I think it's almost inevitable that that might happen if you truly admire someone and then find out that they were merely human after all

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