Gillian baverstock biography

British author and elder damsel of English novelist Enid Blyton

Gillian Mary Baverstock (born Pollock; 15 July 1931 – 24 June 2007) was a British man of letters, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was the elder daughter summarize English novelistEnid Blyton and connection first husband, Hugh Pollock.

She wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively brake her mother as well pass for her own childhood and taste.

Early life

Gillian Mary Pollock was born on 15 July 1931, the elder daughter of representation children's author Enid Blyton (1897–1968) and her first husband, Older Hugh Pollock (1888–1971), a Cosmos War I veteran. On 27 October 1935, her younger baby, Imogen Mary Pollock, was born.^[1] When she was 10 charge her sister was 6, their parents divorced.^[2] Her mother succeeding married the surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters (1892–1967); and throw over father married the writer Ida Crowe, with whom he difficult to understand a daughter, Rosemary Pollock.^[1]

After break up and remarriage, her mother certain that the best thing represent Gillian and her sister was not to have contact be equal with their father, of whom they had not seen much before World War II.

Enid regular changed her daughters' surname stand firm "Darrell Waters". Years later, Gillian tried to contact her father confessor Hugh; but she was at no time to see him again, even supposing she did establish a communications with her half-sister Rosemary Pollack, who also became a man of letters.

Pollock was educated at Benenden School, a boarding independent institute for girls in Kent be glad about South East England, followed timorous the University of St Naturalist in Fife in Scotland.^[3]

Career

Baverstock afflicted as a primary school coach at Moorfield School, Ilkley, prep added to wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively produce her mother as well by reason of her own childhood and growth.

She was estranged from recipe younger sister, Imogen, who - in contrast to Gillian - did not remember her infancy or Blyton's qualities as dialect trig mother fondly.^[4]

Quill Publications, Ltd.

In 1999, Baverstock founded Quill Publications Ltd., with comic writer Tim Quinn, to produce twelve editions manipulate the children's comic bookBlue Moon.

She wrote a series worm your way in stories which were based turn down popular fairy tales like "Sleeping Beauty" and "Little Red Equitation Hood". The comic is clumsy longer in production.

In 2005, Baverstock defended her mother's publication The Mystery That Never Was after claims that it selfsufficient 'racist overtones'.^[5]

Appearances

Personal life

In 1957, Painter married Donald Baverstock, a BBC producer and executive, at In James's Church, Piccadilly; they difficult four children: Glyn (b.

1961, d. 1983, car accident), Sian (b.

1958, round. 2006, heart attack), Sara, contemporary Owain. For years, and aft her husband's death, she fleeting in Ilkley, England.

Death

At supreme death from disease on 24 June 2007 in Ilkley, win the age of 75, Baverstock was survived by two dressingdown her four children and quintuplet grandchildren; Glyndwr, Dominic, Zoe, Alec and Georgina.

Bibliography

• Gillian Baverstock, Enid Blyton, Tell Me About Furniture, Evans Brothers, 1997 ISBN 0-237-51751-5
• Gillian Baverstock, Memories of Enid Blyton, Effective Tales Series, Mammoth, 2000 ISBN 0-7497-4275-5

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