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Description: | Small leather-bound five year diary kept by Enid Blyton's daughter, Gillian Baverstock. Diary entries start on 1st January 1946 when Gillian was 14 years old. Daily entries appear until 25 July 1946, when there is a year's break before entries resume on 26 July 1947. Daily entries continue uninterrupted from this date until 1st April 1948, when again the diary entries break off. Entries resume on 8th October 1949, the day Gillian first arrived as a student at St Andrews University, and continue until 12th June 1950. There is a break in entries between 13th June and 30th June 1950, on which date the daily entries resume until 28th July 1950. There are no further entries in the diary after this date. The diary is inscribed on the title page 'Gill Darrell Waters'.
The diary entries give details of Gillian's day to day routines, including a lot of detail about her life at Benenden boarding school and her first year at university. There are some references to her reading her mother's typescripts, including 'Last Term at Malory Towers', and some references to various public engagements and events which her mother attended during this period. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Rights holder: | Seven Stories | Subjects: | Seven Stories | Source: | Seven Stories | Identifier: | EB/02/01 | Go to resource |
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