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Gallery Package - Enid Blyton and Irène Némirovsky


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<br><br><br>ENID BLYTON<br>British Children's Writer<br>Universal Pictorial Press Photo<br>PAB 037429   01.05.1955

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Enid Blyton at home writing<br><br>Undated

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Enid Blyton at home<br><br>Undated

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Enid Blyton's first appearance since being bitten by a dog.  Pictured arriving at the Central Hall Westminster today to open the Church Army Annual Sale of Work.   This is Miss Blyton's first public appearance since her accident a few weeks ago when she was seriously bitten by a dog.  Miss Blyton was carried to the hall as our picture shows.<br><br>19 November

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November 23 1949<br><br>Sir William Gilliat, the gynaecologist who attended Princess Elizabeth at the birth of Prince Charles, demostrating analgesia apparatus to Miss Enid Blyton whose stories have lulled many a child to sleep, at the first Mothercraft Exhibition at the Central Hall, Westminster, London today (Wednesday).  The Exhibition, intended to be an annual event, shows the achievements of sciences and industry towards helping rear healthy, happy babies.

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Enid Blyton (died November 1968) and &quotNoddy" 17 December 1954<br><br>Author Enid Blyton photographed with a 14 year old boy named Bunny May at a reception at the Savoy last night to meet the cast of her first play " Noddy in Toyland" which opens at the Stoll on December 23.  Bunny plays the part of Noddy.

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Enid Blyton at home with some of her characters including Noddy<br><br>Undated

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Enid Blyton at home<br><br>Undated

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Enid Blyton at home with her bird feeder<br><br>Undated

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Enid Blyton wearing a fur stole, gloves, bag and hat and pearls<br><br>Undated

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Enid Blyton at home.  Head shot with house in the background<br><br>Undated

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Author Enid Blyton, the writer of hundreds of children's books, with the young boy who was chosen to play one of her most popular characters, Noddy, on stage.

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Enid Blyton went to the Highbury studios to watch the filming of 2 episodes from her Noddy books. 23rd August 1955<br>Enid Blyton holding the Noddy puppet with Chris Lawrence and Tiny Lawrence sons of the director

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Enid Blyton<br>Children's author<br>With two young hopefuls at the &quotNoddy in Toyland" auditions at Prince's Theatre London. Gloria Johnson and Colin Spaull<br>13th November 1957

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Enid Blyton<br>Children's author<br>Signing autographs to eager schoolboys in London<br>7th January 1953

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Irène Nemirovsky (1903-1942), French woman of letters of Russian origin.  Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 the daughter of a successful Jewish banker.  In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a best selling novelist.  Prevented from publishing when Germany invaded France in 1940.  In July 1942 she was arrested and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp and from there, she was taken to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.  Posthumous books published 2007 - Suite Francaise and Fire in the Blood.

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Irène Nemirovsky (1903-1942), French woman of letters of Russian origin, in 1938. HRL-630093<br><br>Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 the daughter of a successful Jewish banker.  In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a best selling novelist.  Prevented from publishing when Germany invaded France in 1940.  In July 1942 she was arrested and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp and from there, she was taken to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.  Posthumous books published 2007 - Suite Francaise and Fire in the Blood.

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Irène Nemirovsky (1903-1942), french woman of letters of Russian origin. Photograph taken in 1938.<br><br>Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 the daughter of a successful Jewish banker.  In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a best selling novelist.  Prevented from publishing when Germany invaded France in 1940.  In July 1942 she was arrested and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp and from there, she was taken to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.  Posthumous books published 2007 - Suite Francaise and Fire in the Blood.

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Irène Nemirovsky (1903-1942), French woman of letters of Russian origin.<br><br>Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 the daughter of a successful Jewish banker.  In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a best selling novelist.  Prevented from publishing when Germany invaded France in 1940.  In July 1942 she was arrested and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp and from there, she was taken to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.  Posthumous books published 2007 - Suite Francaise and Fire in the Blood.

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Suite Francaise<br>TopFoto image used UK as front cover of Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky<br><br>World War II. Soldiers mobilized in the East Station. Paris, August 25, 1939. Colourized photo.

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Fire in the Blood <br>TopFoto image used UK for front cover of Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky<br><br>Couple in the grass. Colourized photo.

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