Best known for novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, interest in Daphne du Maurier's work and private life has never waned; new ...
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"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard." London, England. Born into a prosperous, creative family, the young Daphne was initially educated at home and later at school in Paris. Du Maurier ...
“Rebecca, always Rebecca. I should never be rid of Rebecca,” laments the second Mrs de Winter in Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 novel Rebecca. Mention the title to any bibliophile and they will no ...
The house boasts four bedrooms, lovely views across a Cornish cove and a garden with a tennis court. And if that is not tempting enough it has a rich literary history thrown in for free. Daphne du ...
Daphne: Biographical movie. Starring Geraldine Somerville, Elizabeth McGovern, Janet McTeer. Based on letters by Daphne du Maurier. 10 p.m. Sunday, Logo channel, available on Comcast digital Channel ...
“It was three months after she died that he first noticed the apple tree.” This is how Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 story “The Apple Tree” begins. Readers familiar with her most read work, Rebecca, are ...
To Angela, Daphne and Jeanne, it was entirely normal to be joined for lunch by Rudolph Valentino or for Tallulah Bankhead and Lady Diana Cooper to visit for dinner while Ivor Novello entertained them ...
Dame Daphne du Maurier, the English novelist who died in 1989, was fascinated by her French heritage. The author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn had been brought up on tales of an aristocratic ancestor who ...
Nicholas Shakespeare relishes Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters by Jane Dunn, a tender portrait of three sisters who never got over the handicap of not being boys. Nicholas Shakespeare 04 March 2013 • ...
British novelist Daphne du Maurier anticipated the British referendum in her 1972 book Rule Britannia Breaking apart from Europe, resentment towards Westminster elites, financial uncertainty - sound ...