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Dec 25, 2023 · Having been born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 June 1914, Laurie Lee moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917, the move with which Cider with Rosie opens. After fighting in the First World War with the Royal West Kent Regiment, Lee's father, Reginald Joseph Lee, did not return to the family. Lee and his brothers grew up loving ...
Laurie Lee's autobiography of his childhood in rural Gloucestershire, "Cider with Rosie", is a classic. This book continues with his leaving home aged nineteen, walking to London via Southampton (where he learns busking techniques) and some of the South Coast, having his first publication of a poem, working as a building site labourer and then ...
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Laurie Lee. Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, raised in the village of Slad, and went to Marling School, Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning ...
Laurie Lee was an English poet, novelist, and screenwriter best known for his autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, and A Moment of Time. His work is characterized by its lyrical prose, evocative descriptions of nature, and celebration of rural life. Lee's writing often explores themes of memory ...
Laurie Lee 1914–. English memoirist, poet, nonfiction and travel writer, essayist, and dramatist. The following entry provides an overview of Lee's career through 1994. Lee is highly regarded ...
A Moment of War. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) is a memoir by Laurie Lee, a British poet. It is a sequel to Cider with Rosie which detailed his early life in Gloucestershire after the First World War. In this sequel Lee leaves the security of his Cotswold village of Slad in Gloucestershire to start a new life, at the same time ...
