In 1933 he met Sophia Rogers, an "exotically pretty girl with dark curly hair" who had moved to Slad from Buenos Aires, an influence on Lee who said later in life that he only went to Spain because "a girl in Slad from Buenos Aires taught me a few words of Spanish." Īt 20, Lee worked as an office clerk and a builder's labourer, and lived in London for a year before leaving for Vigo, in northwest Spain, in the summer of 1935. This gave him his first smattering of politicisation and was where he met the composer Benjamin Frankel and the "Cleo" who appears in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning. In 1931, he first found the Whiteway Colony, two miles from Slad, a colony founded by Tolstoyan anarchists. Lee left the Central School at 15 to become an errand boy at a Chartered Accountants in Stroud. In his notebook for 1928, when he was 14, he listed "Concert and Dance Appointments", for at this time he was in demand to play his violin at dances. Īt 12, Lee went to the Central Boys' School in Stroud. His brother Jack Lee (born 1913) was to become a film director. He had two brothers from his parents' marriage, Jack and Tony, as well as Dorothy, Harold, Reggie, Phyllis, and Marjorie, who were older siblings from his father's first marriage.
His sister, Frances Nemariah Joan Lee, died in 1915 aged three when Lawrence Lee was a toddler. Lee and his brothers grew up loving the Lights, the family of their mother (Annie Emily Light), and intensely disliking their Lee relations. 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. 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. Laurie Lee's childhood home, Bank Cottages (now Rosebank Cottage), in the village of Slad.
The second deals with his leaving home for London and his first visit to Spain in 1935, and the third with his return to Spain in December 1937 to join the Republican International Brigades.
The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley. His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1991). Laurence Edward Alan Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – ) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire. Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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