"However, we have every confidence in the Enid Blyton Society's views, " Chorion's Esra Cafer said.
One homeowner in Glyndwr Road, Enid Jones, vowed last year to stay put.
His parents, Larry and Betty, met at a small Baptist church in Enid, Oklahoma, where Larry was a sometime pastor.
Enid Hagon's immediate family came a long way, they travelled from Birmingham and Botswana, to attend their mother's funeral in Usk.
Mrs Dorme, a former librarian, said Enid Blyton had been writing 60 years ago with the attitudes and thinking of her time.
And my mother, in Enid, Oklahoma, used to hide her friends in the trunk to save money sneaking into drive in movies.
British company Absolute Studios has created an electronic Toyland and computerised versions of Enid Blyton's characters, which have been loved by children for decades.
As if to prove his faith in the future, Hamm recently decided to move Continental's headquarters from sleepy Enid, Okla. to almost bustling Oklahoma City.
United States television companies grabbed the chance to show a series based on Enid Blyton's creation which has been specially tailored for the American market.
Enid sat in the B-deck lounge and listened to the slow plant and drag of someone's walker- aided progress across the A-deck lounge above her.
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Last year the centre set up an Enid Blyton archive after buying original typescripts of some of her best-known work including the Secret Seven series.
Enid Blyton is a registered trade mark of Chorion Rights Limited.
Until last year Continental was based out in Enid, Okla.
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And Enid, his long-suffering wife, just wants to have fun.
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"To my mind, they've nothing in common at all because they're completely different vehicles, " says Tony Summerfield, head of the Enid Blyton Society and a leading expert on the author.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
And he said Kastner celebrated that theme and also what children could do by themselves, an idea that had been picked up by writers such as Enid Blyton, Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson.
David Rudd, professor of children's literature at the University of Bolton and an expert on the author, said Enid Blyton's stories had been seen as racist since the late 1960s, with the idea gathering momentum in the 1970s and 80s.
Meanwhile, on the grounds outside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, there's a sculpture installation of four enormous portrait busts, one for each season, an homage of sorts to Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose whimsical portraits were composed of produce and plants.
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Mayor Ernie Currier of Enid, Oklahoma which was the first community to officially join the Defense Department's "America Supports You" program, and has recruited over 20, 000 Enid residents to join the effort in a number of ways, including sending letters, books, magazines, DVDs and other items to the service members overseas.
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