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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.
Margaret Isabel Mabel (Margo) Durrell (born 4 May 1919, Kurseong, Bengal, today West Bengal; [41] [42] d. 16 January 2007, Bournemouth, Dorset [43]) She had two brief marriages. The first was in 1940 to Imperial Airways flight engineer John N. Breeze, known as Jack, whom she had met on Corfu . [ 44 ]
Margo Durrell: 26 episodes [3] 2019–2022 The Capture: Abigail 4 episodes [9] 2022 T.S. Eliot: Into 'The Waste Land' The Hyacinth Girl TV documentary 2023 Dalgliesh: Octavia Aldridge 2 episodes 2023 The Long Shadow: Jacqueline Hill 2 episodes 2025 Prime Target: Fiona Carey 3 episodes
Gerald Durrell: The Authorized Biography, Douglas Botting (1999) "Durrelliania": An Illustrated Checklist of Inscribed Books of Lawrence Durrell and Gerald Durrell and Associated Publications, Letters and Notes in the Library of Jeremy J. C. Mallinson, edited by Jeremy Mallinson (1999)
The show tells the story of the extravagant Durrell family who, tired of the rainy and unhealthy English climate, move to the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu. The family consists of Gerry (young naturalist), his widowed mother (excellent cook), his eldest brother Larry (starting writer), another brother Leslie (mad about guns and boats) and sister Margo (who suffers from acne).
Durrell had already written several successful books about his trips collecting animals in the wild for zoos when he published My Family and Other Animals in 1956. Its comic exaggeration of the foibles of his family – including his eldest brother Lawrence Durrell , who became a celebrated novelist and poet – and his heartfelt appreciation ...
Merchant's early credits include Margo Durrell in the 2005 BBC television film My Family and Other Animals and Georgiana Darcy in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice.In 2006 she appeared in two more BBC dramas, as Sara Fox, the daughter of Alan Davies and Michelle Gomez, in the comedy The Good Housekeeping Guide, and as Probationer Eastwood in the historical drama Casualty 1906.
Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie; 16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was a British woman born in India during the British Raj. She was the mother of Lawrence , Leslie, Margo and Gerry Durrell .