Gillian Baverstock
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Gillian Mary Baverstock (born 15 July 1931, in Buckinghamshire, England) is first daughter of English writer Enid Blyton.
Baverstock worked as a primary school teacher at Moorfield School, Ilkley and has written and spoken extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life. She has spoken publicly about how she no longer communicates with her sibling Imogen Smallwood (Blyton's second and last child), believed to be caused by an on-going disagreement about their mother.
In 1957 Gillian married Donald Baverstock, a BBC producer and executive, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.
In 1999 Baverstock founded Quill Publications Ltd, with comic writer Tim Quinn, to produce twelve editions of children's comic book Blue Moon. She wrote a series of stories which were based on popular fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood. The comic is no longer in production.
Baverstock recently defended her mother's book The Mystery That Never Was after claims that it contained racist overtones.
Now a widow, she lives in Ilkley, England.
[edit] Bibliography
- Memories of Enid Blyton (Telling Tales S.) (Mammoth, 2000)
- Enid Blyton (Tell Me About S.) (Evans Brothers, 1997)
[edit] External link
- Was Enid Blyton the mother from hell? (The Daily Telegraph, 10/03/2002)
