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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 ]
Daisy Waterstone (born 13 June 1994) is a British actress, best known for playing Margo Durrell in the ITV family drama The Durrells. Early life
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 ...
A Memorial Celebration for the Life of Gerald Durrell (1995) World of Animals episode on Gerald Durrell and Jersey Zoo, Channel One, Moscow (2004) The Wild Life of Gerald Durrell, BBC Four (December 2005) Wildlife in a War Zone, using archival Durrell footage and examining the changes brought about by war in Sierra Leone, Animal Planet, May 2006
Margo Martin outside the United States Federal Courthouse in Miami (AFP via Getty Images) Ms Martin was misidentified by the Fox reporter on the scene, John Roberts, who told viewers as he spotted ...
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 .