Louisa Durrell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mother of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell
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Place of Birth: Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
About Louisa Durrell
- Louisa Florence Durrell, born Louisa Florence Dixie (16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was an Anglo-Irish woman born in India during the British Raj.
- She married and raised four children, including novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell.
- She was featured as the character of "Mother" in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical Corfu Trilogy, published from 1954 to 1978, about the family's years in Corfu from 1935 to 1939.
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