Durrell family

The Durrell family included:

Lawrence Samuel Durrell (1884–1928), an Anglo-Indian engineer, his wife Louisa Florence Durrell (1886–1964) and their children:

Lawrence Samuel Durrell, Louisa Durrell and their children were all born in India during the British Raj as was Louisa Durrell's father. Following Lawrence Samuel Durrell's death in 1928, Mrs Durrell and her three younger children moved to England where Lawrence had already been sent to be educated. In 1935 they moved to Corfu, again following Lawrence's earlier move there with his wife Nancy. They remained in Corfu until 1939, when the outbreak of World War II forced most of them to return to England. Gerald's autobiographical work My Family and Other Animals, along with another two books in his Corfu Trilogy and several short stories, records the family's time in Corfu, albeit in a heavily fictionalized way.

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