Margaret Durrell
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Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell (4 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.
Margo Durrell | |
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Born | Margaret Isabel Mabel Durrell 4 May 1919 Kurseong, Bengal, British India |
Died | 16 January 2007(2007-01-16) (aged 87) Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
Notable work | Whatever Happened to Margo? |
Spouses | Jack Breeze
(m. 1940, divorced)Malcolm "Mac" Duncan
(divorced) |
Children | 2 |
Parents | |
Relatives |
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Family | Durrell |
She wrote a memoir, Whatever Happened to Margo?, giving a humorous account of her experiences as a Bournemouth landlady in the late 1940s. It includes details about the lives of her family, particularly Leslie, Gerald, and her mother Louisa Durrell following their time on Corfu. The manuscript was apparently written in the 1960s and was discovered in the attic by a granddaughter nearly 35 years later. It was published in 1995.[1]