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Early life and works. Laurie Lee's childhood home, Bank Cottages (now Rosebank Cottage), in the village of Slad. Lee was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire on 26 June 1914, son of civil servant Reginald Joseph Lee (1877-1947) and Annie Emily (1879-1950), née Light, and moved with his family to the village of Slad in 1917; this relocation opens ...
Jun 22, 2024 · Laurie Lee (born June 26, 1914, Slad, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, England—died May 13, 1997, Slad) was an English poet and prose writer best known for Cider with Rosie (1959), a memoir of the author’s boyhood in the Cotswold countryside.
Laurie Lee was born in 1914, and brought up in the village of Slad. He left home at nineteen to begin a journey on foot that would take him first to London and, a year later, to Spain. The story of this journey is immortalised in his autobiographical trilogy, Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and 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 embarking on an ...
Jun 26, 2014 · But who was Laurie Lee - the local boy from Gloucestershire whose name is now counted among the greats? Lee's writing was rooted in the rolling green hills and deep valleys of his childhood...
Laurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning over. Yet Lee’s poems also captured war, human relationships and distant places, informed by his own experiences of lives uprooted by change and conflict.
Cider With Rosie, autobiographical novel by Laurie Lee, published in 1959. An account of the author’s blissful childhood in an isolated village, the book was as instant classic, widely read in British schools.
