Which children's author created the character Amelia Jane, a naughty doll who always did what she wanted?

Amelia Jane is a fictional character and book series by Enid Blyton. Her initial book, Naughty Amelia Jane!, appeared in 1939. According to Blyton's daughter Gillian, the main character was based on a large handmade doll given to her by her mother on her third birthday. A total of eleven books were released.

In her autobiography Enid Blyton described Amelia Jane as having corkscrew hair, big loose limbs and a wicked face. She was a doll given to the author's elder daughter (Gillian) and it appears that Enid Blyton sometimes sat Amelia Jane on her knee at meal-times and manipulated her to such good effect that her daughters thought the doll was really acting up. "Put her in a story," Gillian had said - and so it came to pass.