Enid

Enid may refer to:

Places

  • Enid, Oklahoma, a city
  • Enid High School, a public secondary school
  • Enid, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
  • Enid Lake, Mississippi
  • 13436 Enid, an asteroid
  • Entertainment

  • Enid (film), a 2009 TV film about Enid Blyton, starring Helena Bonham Carter
  • "Enid" (song) (1992), by the Canadian group Barenaked Ladies
  • The Enid, a British rock band founded in 1975
  • Given name

  • Enid (given name), a Welsh female given name and a list of people and fictional characters so named
  • Enid (film)

    Enid is a British dramatic television film first broadcast on 16 November 2009 on BBC Four. Directed by James Hawes it is based on the life of children's writer Enid Blyton, portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter. The film introduced the two main lovers of Blyton's life. Her first husband Hugh Pollock, who was also her publisher, was played by Matthew Macfadyen. Kenneth Darrell Waters, a London surgeon who became Blyton's second husband, was portrayed by Denis Lawson. The film explored how the orderly, reassuringly clear worlds Blyton created within her stories contrasted with the complexity of her own personal life.

    Cast

  • Helena Bonham Carter as Enid Blyton
  • Matthew Macfadyen as Hugh Pollock, Blyton's publisher, first husband, and father of her two daughters Gillian and Imogen.
  • Denis Lawson as Kenneth Darrell Waters: A London surgeon who becomes Blyton's second husband following her divorce from Pollock.
  • Travis Oliver as Corporal Alexander Morris
  • Ramona Marquez as Imogen Pollock
  • Sinead Michael as Gillian Pollock
  • Enid (given name)

    Enid (/ˈnɪd/ EE-nid; Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɛnɨ̞d]) is a feminine given name, the origin of which is Middle Welsh eneit, meaning "purity", literally "soul" (from Proto-Celtic *ana-ti̯o-, compare Gaulish anatia "souls (?)" attested on the Larzac tablet, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁- "to breathe, blow"; cf. the modern Welsh anadl, "breath" or "wind").Enid was a character in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Arthurian epic Idylls of the King (1859) and its medieval Welsh source, the Mabinogi tale of Geraint and Enid; according to The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names (1983),

    People

    Female

  • Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), British author and playwright
  • Enid Bakewell (born 1940), English cricketer
  • Enid Bennett (1893–1969), Australian-born American silent film actress
  • Enid Blyton (1897–1968), popular British children's writer
  • Enid Campbell (1932–2010), Australian legal scholar and law professor
  • Enid Charles (1894–1972), socialist, feminist and pioneering statistician
  • Enid Derham (1882–1941), Australian poet and academic
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