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.