re: the Secret Garden, I like to think Mary developed serious feelings for Dickon and they eloped and went to live in a cottage on the moors, maybe keeping some sheep or goats.
Enid Blyton characters- this will be fun: (Mallory Towers)
Darrell Rivers- schoolteacher who marries a boy next door type- a civil servant maybe. They have 4 children- 2 boys, 2 girls.
Sally Hope- would maybe BE a civil servant. spinster.
Alicia- plenty of lovers, leaving a string of broken hearts in her wake. Maybe marries someone impressed by her wit and "fun" persona until she shows her nasty side. divorce then very likely. her cousin June becomes a bitchy tennis coach who chain smokes and has a foul mouth.
Gwen- suicide. or dead from complications caused by binge eating. She a lonely and bitter person already and the being scapegoated by everyone at school most likely leaves her needing a good decade of therapy. .
Irene and Belinda- I see them as sort of bohemian types- Irene as composer who perhaps teaches part time but is wonderfully dotty as ever, Belinda an artist, who becomes a hippy by the end of the 60s, and lives a pot smoking filled life painting obscure psycadelics that sell well at the Tate St. Ives, near her home in a little cottage in St Erth or Carbis Bay.
Mavis- opera singer. ends up living in Vienna or Milan eventually. I see her as very chic with a handsome husband, maybe a sexy baritone or tenor who would look good in a men's cologne advert were he born 2 decades later.
Bill and Clarissa- I see them living together, still running their livery stables. Occasionally Bill goes in for local showjumping and Clarissa teaches disabled children to ride.
Mary Lou- a nurse until she meets a handsome but also shy doctor. They fall in love instantly and ML has 3 or 4 happy children. Their marriage is happy and their children are gentle and kind just like them.
St Claires:
Alison O' Sullivan- goes to London to train in fashion design. Meets a guy of her dreams but he lets her down. Falls quickly in love with man after man but they all let her down or cannot live up to the pedestal she has placed them on. becomes alcoholic to cope with the pain
Hilary Wentworth- secretarial college for a few months out then drops out gets married, pops out 2 children and that is all i can say about her
Alma Pudden- becomes thin and gorgeous after having a thyroid op. But she never forgets the way she has been treated and her past insecurities. She dates unsuitable men just to prove she can now that she is gorgeous. Then has a breakdown and burns down St Claires. She ends up in a secure prison wing , but finally at peace now she has "shown" the bullies what is what.