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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 ]
It is the first and most well-known of Durrell's Corfu trilogy, which also includes Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) and The Garden of the Gods (1978). 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.
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).
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 .
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 Inspector Dalgliesh: Octavia Aldridge 2 episodes 2023 The Long Shadow: Jacqueline Hill 2 episodes 2025 Prime Target: Fiona Carey 3 episodes
Intimate Relations, Jacquie Durrell (1976) Whatever Happened to Margo, Margaret Durrell (1995) (written in the 1960s) The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935-1980, Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller (1998) Autumn Gleanings: Corfu Memoirs and Poems, Theodore Stephanides (2011) (apparently written in the 1970s)
Gerald Malcolm Durrell OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter.He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, [note 2] and moved to England when his father died in 1928.