Enid Mary Blyton was an important English writer.

ENID MARY BLYTON´S LIFE Enid Blyton was born in London, in a small flat above a shop in East Dulwich. She was the eldest of three children. Her father had many talents: he painted in water colours, wrote poetry, learned to play piano, taught himself foreign languages, and was a photographer. After Thomas started an affair with another woman, she moved with her children, Enid, Hanly, and Carey, to Beckenham. Thomas established a successful wholesale clothing business in the City of London. He took care of his children's private school fees and sent regularly money to support his family.

ENID MARY BLYTON LIFE´S Blyton, who was trained as a kindergarten teacher at Ipswich High School, opened her own infants' school. She also compiled a children's encyclopedia, but it was not until in the 1930s, when her stories started to attract a wider audience. In 1924 Blyton married Hugh Pollock, an editor of the book department of George Newnes. In the mid-1930s Blyton experienced a spiritual crisis, but she decided not to convert to Roman Catholicism, because she had felt it was "too constricting".

BOOKS Her first published poem, entitled 'Have You-?' - appeared in Nash's Magazine (1917). Blyton's first book, Child Whispers (1922), was a collection of verse. This twenty-four-page work was followed by Real Fairies: Poems (1923), Responsive Singing Games (1923), The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies (1924), Songs of Gladness (1924), The Zoo Book (1924), and other books published by J. Saville and Newnes. . Blyton's first full-length children's adventure book, The Secret Island, was published in 1938. This fast-moving story, woven around familiar characters, led to such series as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, the Adventure series, the Mystery series, and the 'Barney' Mystery books.

The Island of Adventure During his holiday tuition, Philip Mannering meets Jack and Lucy-Ann Trent, and together they run off to the coastal estate of Philip's aunt and uncle, Craggy Tops. Soon, the three of them and Dinah, Philip's sister, witness strange happenings centering about the nearby Island of Gloom and two strange characters — the grumpy and unfriendly manservant, Jo Jo (renamed Joe in a later, bowdlerised, version), and the mysterious fellow calling himself Bill Smugs (real name: Bill Cunningham). A trip to the Island's abandoned copper mines yields an unexpected surprise as they discover a sinister operation being conducted in the abandoned shafts.