May 2011
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The Durrell family's villas on Corfu →
The Strawberry Pink villa, the Daffodil Yellow villa and the Snow White villa (and Lawrence Durrell’s “White House”).
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whatever happened to Margo? →
Gerald Durrell’s sister Margo wrote her own autobiographical account.
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Whatever happened to Nancy Durrell →
A new biography of Nancy Myers, the first wife of Lawrence Durrell, is going to be published soon. It’s written by Joanna Hodgkin, Nancy’s daughter with her second husband. Nancy, a painter, lived with Lawrence on Corfu; when war broke out in 1939, the couple escaped to Egypt with Penelope, their baby daughter. They split up not too long afterwards, and Nancy went to Jerusalem.
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Indigenous Dialogues: Delos →
indigenousdialogues:
For Diana Gould On charts they fall like lace,
Islands consuming in a sea
Born dense in its own blue:
And like repairing mirrors holding up
Small towns and trees and rivers
To the still air, the lovely air:
From the clear side of springing Time,
In clement places where the windmills…
