mother of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell

Louisa Durrell

1886–1964, born Roorkee, novelist

Louisa Florence Durrell, was a British woman born in India during the British Raj. She was the mother of Lawrence, Leslie, Margo and Gerry Durrell. She was featured in Gerald Durrell’s autobiographical Corfu trilogy, which tells about the Durrells' years in Corfu from 1935 to 1939 in a somewhat fictionalized way.

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