The Durrell family lived in India, Corfu, England and other places during the twentieth century.
Their lives and travels were documented and made famous through their autobiographical writings, particularly those by Lawrence and Gerald.
The Durrell children were fourth-generation settlers in India; their paternal grandmother Dora Johnstone and maternal grandfather George Dixie having also been born on the sub-continent.
They remained there until the summer of 1939, when the impending outbreak of World War II forced most of them to return to England.
Gerald's autobiographical Corfu trilogy and several short stories give a somewhat fictionalised account of the family's time in Corfu, while Lawrence's Prospero's Cell, A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra (1945) is assembled from his diaries and notebooks, mainly for the years 1937 and 1938.