Gillian Mary Baverstock was a British author and elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock.
Background
She wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life. Gillian Mary Pollock was born on 15 July 1931, the elder daughter of the children"s author Enid Blyton (1897–1968) and her first husband, Major Hugh Pollock (1888–1971), a World War I veteran. On 27 October 1935, her younger sister, Imogen Mary Smallwood, was born.
Her mother later married the surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters (1892–1967).
And her father married the writer Ida Crowe, with whom he had a daughter, Rosemary Pollock.
Education
Pollock was educated at Benenden School, a boarding independent school for girls in Kent in South East England, followed by the University of Street Andrews in Fife in Scotland.
Career
Personal life In 1957, Pollock married Donald Baverstock, a British Broadcasting Corporation producer and executive, at Street James"s Church, Piccadilly. They had four children: Glyn (b 1961, d 1983, car accident), Sian (b 1962, d 2006, heart attack), Sara, and Owain. First jobs Baverstock worked as a primary school teacher at Moorfield School, Ilkley, and wrote and spoke to audiences and the media extensively about her mother as well as her own childhood and life.
Quill Publications, Limited.
In 1999, Baverstock founded Quill Publications Limited., with comic writer Tim Quinn, to produce twelve editions of the 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. Appearances The Edinburgh Book Festival, "Growing Up with Enid Blyton", 26 August 2006.
Oxford Literary Festival, "Enid Blyton", 25 March 2007.
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In 2005, Baverstock defended her mother"s book The Mystery That Never Was after claims that it contained racist overtones.