Daphne, Lady Browning DBE (13 May 1907–19 April 1989), commonly known as Dame Daphne du Maurier (IPA: [ˈdæfnɪ du ˈmɒɹieɪ]), was a famous British novelist, playwright and short story writer. Many of her works were adapted into films, such as one of her most famous books, Rebecca, which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1940 for director Alfred Hitchcock, who would later bring her short story, The Birds, onto the big screen. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Rebecca is an Academy Award–winning 1940 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project. ... The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 â€“ April 29, 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... The Birds is a 1963 horror film by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. ...

Personal life

Daphne du Maurier was born in London (although she spent most of her life in her beloved Cornwall), the second of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont).^[1] Her grandfather was the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. These connections gave her a head start in her literary career; Du Maurier published some of her very early work in his Bystander magazine, and her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931. Du Maurier was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child she was introduced to many of the brightest stars of the theatre thanks to the celebrity of her father; notably, on meeting Tallulah Bankhead she was quoted as saying that the actress was the most beautiful creature she had ever seen. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Cornwall (disambiguation). ... Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (March 26, 1873–April 11, 1934) was a British actor and manager. ... William Comyns Beaumont, also known as Comyns Beaumont, (1873–1956)[1] was a British journalist, author, and lecturer. ... For other uses, see Author (disambiguation). ... Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... Self portrait of George du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a British author who was born in Paris, France. ... Svengali is the name of a fictional hypnotist in George du Mauriers 1894 novel, Trilby. ... Trilby is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier published in 1894. ... The Llewelyn-Davies boys were the sons of Arthur (1863–1907) and Sylvia, née du Maurier (1866–1910) (daughter of George du Maurier). ... Sir James Matthew Barrie, Baronet, Scottish author Sir James Matthew Barrie, Baronet (May 9, 1860 - June 19, 1937), more commonly known as J. M. Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. ... This article is about the play and novel by J.M. Barrie. ... Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress, talk-show host and bon vivant. ...

She married Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning and had two daughters and a son (Tessa, Flavia and Christian). Biographers have drawn attention to the fact that the marriage was at times somewhat chilly and that du Maurier could be aloof and distant to her children, especially the girls, when immersed in her writing.^[2] However, as a product of well-to-do Edwardian society in which the nanny dealt with the children, this is hardly surprising. Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. ... Browning as Commander, Airborne Corps. ...

Indeed, she has often been painted as a frostily private recluse who rarely mixed in society or gave interviews.^[3] A notable exception to this came after the release of the film A Bridge Too Far in which her late husband was portrayed in a less-than-flattering light. Du Maurier was incensed and wrote to the national newspapers decrying what she considered unforgivable treatment.^[4] Once out of the glare of the public spotlight, however, many remembered her as a warm and immensely funny person who was a welcoming hostess to guests at Menabilly,^[5] the house she leased for many years (from the Rashleigh family) in Cornwall. "Boy" died in 1965 and soon after Daphne moved to Kilmarth which became the setting for The House on the Strand. This article is about the 1977 film. ... The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1969 and thus one of her later works. ...

After her death in 1989, numerous references were made to her alleged lesbianism; an affair with Gertrude Lawrence as well as her infatuation for the wife of her American publisher, Ellen Doubleday, were cited.^[6] Du Maurier stated in her memoirs that her father had wanted a son and being a tomboy, she had naturally wished to have been born a boy. However, this is perhaps too simplistic an explanation: a childhood brought into contact with the theatrical and artistic people of her parents' circle, many of whom were homosexual, should have meant for a liberal atmosphere. Yet strangely for a man in his profession, her father was vociferously homophobic.^[7] For a daughter who virtually worshipped her father, this was bound to have major repercussions in later life; guilt, shame and an instilled belief that homosexuality was utterly abhorrent could not have helped her form rational conclusions to her own doubts and anxieties.^[8] In letters released to her official biographer after her death, du Maurier explained to a trusted few her own unique slant on her sexuality; her personality, she informs, comprises two distinct people: the loving wife and mother (the side she shows to the world) and the lover, a decidedly male energy, hidden to virtually everyone and the power behind her artistic creativity.^[9] Du Maurier evidently believed this was the demon which fueled her creative life as a writer.^[10] One can best try to understand this if one looks to those novels such as The Scapegoat or The House on the Strand, written in the first person and as men, and being utterly convincing.^{[citation needed]} This article is about homosexual women, not inhabitants of the Greek island of Lesbos A lesbian (lowercase L) is a homosexual woman. ... Gertrude Lawrence (July 4, 1898 - September 6, 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. ... A protest by The Westboro Baptist Church, a group identified by the Anti-Defamation League as virulently homophobic. ... The Scapegoat is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. ... The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1969 and thus one of her later works. ...

Titles

Daphne du Maurier was also referred to as the following:

• Dame Daphne du Maurier
• Daphne du Maurier, DBE
• Lady Browning

In the Queen's Birthday Honours List for June 1969, Daphne du Maurier was created a Dame of the British Empire. She never used the title and according to her biographer Margaret Forster (Daphne du Maurier, Chatto and Windus, 1993, ISBN 0701136995), she told no-one about the honour. Even her children learned of it from the newspapers. The honours system of the United Kingdom is a means of rewarding personal bravery, achievement or service to the country. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross... Margaret Forster (born 1938) is a British author. ...

"She thought of pleading illness for the investiture, until her children insisted it would be a great day for the older grandchildren. So she went through with it, though she slipped out quietly afterwards to avoid the attention of the press" (page 370).

Novels and short stories

Literary critics have sometimes berated du Maurier's works for not being "intellectually heavyweight" like those of George Eliot or Iris Murdoch, but to fully understand her importance in English literature one must look first to the era in which she wrote. At the onset of her career, with the horrors of the First World War still a fresh memory and the storm-clouds of the Second World War rumbling on the horizon, her novels offered much-needed glamour, romanticism and above all, escapism. But by the 1950s, when the socially and politically critical "angry young men" were in vogue, her writing was felt by some to belong to a bygone age of fiction. Today she has been reappraised as a first-rate storyteller, a mistress of suspense: her ability to recreate a sense of place is much admired, and her work remains popular worldwide. For several decades she was the number one author for library book borrowings.^{[citation needed]} Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. ... Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Irish-born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

The novel Rebecca, which has been adapted for stage and screen on several occasions, is generally regarded as her masterpiece. One of her strongest influences here was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Her fascination with the Brontë family is also apparent in The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë, her biography of the troubled elder brother to the Brontë girls. The fact that their mother had been Cornish no doubt added to her interest. Rebecca is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier. ... This article is about the Victorian novel. ... Charlotte Brontë (IPA: ) (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. ... The Brontë sisters, painted by their brother, Branwell c. ... Branwell Brontë, self portrait, 1840 Patrick Branwell Brontë (26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848) was a painter and poet, the only son of the Brontë family, and the brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne. ...

Other notable works include The Scapegoat, The House on the Strand, and The King's General. The latter is set in the middle of the first and second English Civil Wars. Though written from the Royalist perspective of her native Cornwall, it gives a fairly neutral view of this period of history and is written with a great flair for that era. The Scapegoat is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. ... The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1969 and thus one of her later works. ... The First English Civil War (1642–1646) was the first of three wars, known as the English Civil War (or Wars). The English Civil War refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1652, and includes the Second... Belligerents Royalist Forces Parliamentary Forces: Commanders King Charles I Duke of Hamilton Earl of Norwich Baron Capel Oliver Cromwell Thomas Fairfax Thomas Horton The Second English Civil War (1648–1649) was the second of three wars known as the English Civil War (or Wars) which refers to the series of... °°°°°°°°°°°→→→→→→→→→→→→§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Prince Rupert, an archetypical cavalier For other uses, see Cavalier (disambiguation). ...

In addition to Rebecca, several of her other novels have been adapted for the screen, including Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, Hungry Hill and My Cousin Rachel (1951). The Hitchcock film The Birds (1963) is based on a treatment of one of her short stories, as is the film Don't Look Now (1973). Of the films, du Maurier often complained that the only ones she liked were Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now. Hitchcock's treatment of Jamaica Inn involved a complete re-write of the ending in order to accommodate the ego of its star, Charles Laughton. Du Maurier also felt that Olivia de Havilland was totally wrong as the (anti-)heroine in My Cousin Rachel.^[11] Frenchman's Creek fared rather better with its lavish Technicolor sets and costumes, though du Maurier later regretted her choice of Alec Guinness as the lead in the film of The Scapegoat which she partly financed.^[12] Jamaica Inn is a novel by the Cornish writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. ... Frenchmans Creek is a 1942 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. ... Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943. ... My Cousin Rachel is a 1952 mystery film/romance film directed by Henry Koster and starred Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz and John Sutton. ... The Birds is a 1963 horror film by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. ... For the 1983 PBS sketch-comedy, see You Cant Do That On Television. ... Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 â€“ April 29, 1980) was an iconic and highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. ... Nicolas Jack Roeg, born on August 15, 1928 in London, is an internationally-known cinematographer and film director. ... Inn sign in 2006 The Jamaica Inn is a free house on the borders of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. ... Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. ... Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award winning actress in American motion pictures and is the last surviving principal cast member from Gone with the Wind. ... My Cousin Rachel is a 1952 mystery film/romance film directed by Henry Koster and starred Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz and John Sutton. ... Frenchmans Creek is a 1942 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. ... Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor. ...

Du Maurier was often categorised as a "romantic novelist" (a term she deplored),^[13] though most of her novels, with the notable exception of Frenchman's Creek, are quite different from the stereotypical format of a Georgette Heyer or Barbara Cartland novel. Du Maurier's novels rarely have a happy ending, and her brand of romanticism is often at odds with the sinister overtones and shadows of the paranormal she so favoured. In this light, she has more in common with the "sensation novels" of Wilkie Collins et al., which she admired.^[14] Georgette Heyer (pronounced hair) (16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English Historical romance and detective fiction novelist. ... Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, specialising in historical love themes. ... The sensation novel was a literary genre of fiction popular in Great Britain in the 1860s and 1870s. ... Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. ...

Indeed, it was in her short stories that she was able to give free rein to the harrowing and terrifying side of her imagination; "The Birds", Don't Look Now, The Apple Tree and The Blue Lenses are exquisitely crafted tales of terror which shocked and surprised her audience in equal measure. Perhaps more than at any other time, du Maurier was anxious as to how her bold new writing style would be received, not just with her readers (and to some extent her critics, though by then she had grown wearily accustomed to their often luke-warm reviews) but her immediate circle of family and friends. {{Infobox short story | | name = The Birds | author = Daphne du Maurier | pub_date = 1963 | published_in = The Birds and Other Stories | country = UK | language = English | publisher = Penguin Books | media_type = Print | publication_type = Anthology | genre = Suspense/Survival/Horror Nat Hocken notices an unusual number of birds flying about and behaving strangely along the Peninsula where... Dont look now is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier. ...

In later life she wrote non-fiction, including several biographies which were well-received. This no doubt came from a deep-rooted desire to be accepted as a serious writer, comparing herself to her close literary neighbour, A. L. Rowse, the celebrated historian and essayist, who lived a few miles away from her house near Fowey. For the book by Chuck Palahniuk titled Non-fiction, see Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. ... Alfred Leslie Rowse, CH FBA (December 4, 1903 – October 3, 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific British historian. ... , Fowey (pronounced IPA: (rhymes with boy); Cornish: ) is a small town, civil parish and cargo port at the mouth of the River Fowey in south Cornwall, England, UK. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,273. ...

Also of interest are the "family" novels/biographies which du Maurier wrote of her own ancestry, of which Gerald, the biography of her father, was most lauded. Later she wrote The Glass-Blowers, which traces her French ancestry and gives a vivid depiction of the French Revolution. The du Mauriers is a sequel of sorts, describing the somewhat problematic ways in which the family moved from France to England in the 19th century and finally Mary Anne, a novel based on the life of a notable, and infamous, English ancestor—her great-grandmother Mary Anne Clarke, former mistress of Frederick, Duke of York. Gerald is a common male name in the United States, Canada and other English-speaking countries. ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on... Mary Anne Clarke (1776–1852) was the mistress of Frederick, Duke of York. ... The Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus) (16 August 1763 - 5 January 1827) was a member of the British Royal Family, the second eldest child, and second son, of King George III. From 1820 until his death in 1827, he was the heir presumptive to his elder...

Her final novels reveal just how far her writing style had evolved; The House on the Strand (1969) combines elements of "mental time-travel", a tragic love-affair in 14th century Cornwall, and the dangers of using mind-altering drugs. Her final novel, Rule Britannia, written post-Vietnam, plays with the resentment of English people in general and Cornish people in particular at the increasing dominance of the USA.

She died at the age of 81 at her home in Cornwall, the region which had been the setting for many of her books. In accordance with her wishes, her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered on the cliffs near her home. Cremation is the practice of disposing of a corpse by burning. ...

In late 2006 a previously unknown work titled And His Letters Grew Colder was discovered. This was estimated to have been written in the late 1920s, and takes the form of a series of letters tracing an adulterous passionate affair from initial ardour to deflated acrimony.

Plays

Daphne du Maurier wrote three plays. Her first was a successful adaptation of her novel Rebecca, which opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 5 March 1940 in a production by George Devine, starring Celia Johnson and Owen Nares as the De Winters, and Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Danvers. At the end of May, following a run of 181 performances, the production transferred to the Strand Theatre, with Jill Furse taking over as Mrs. De Winter and Mary Merrall as Danvers, with a further run of 176 performances. This article is about the day. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dame Celia Johnson (1908-1982) was an English actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, Brief Encounter, opposite Trevor Howard. ... Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892–22 May 1972) was an English Academy Award-winning character actress who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Cowards Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wildes The Importance of Being Earnest. ... The Novello Theatre is a theatre on Aldwych in the West End of London. ...

In the summer of 1943 she began writing the autobiographically-inspired drama The Years Between about the unexpected return of a senior officer, thought killed in action, who finds that his wife has taken over his role as Member of Parliament as well as starting a romantic relationship with a local farmer. It was first staged at the Manchester Opera House in 1944, then transferred to London, opening at Wyndham's Theatre on 10 January 1945 starring Nora Swinburne and Clive Brook. The production, directed by Irene Hentschel became a long-running hit, completing 617 performances. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Manchester Opera House The Opera House in Manchester, England is a 2000 seat commercial touring theatre which plays host to touring musicals, ballet, concerts and a spectactular Christmas pantomime. ... Wyndhams Theatre is a West End theatre, one of two opened by the actor/manager Charles Wyndham (cp Criterion Theatre). ... is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nora Swinburne (24 July 1902 - 1 May 2000) was a British actress. ... Clive Brook (1 June 1887 - 17 November 1974) was a British actor. ...

After 60 years of neglect the play was revived by Caroline Smith at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames on 5 September 2007, starring Karen Ascoe and Mark Tandy.^[15] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Richmond is a suburb in southwest London, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. ... is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Mark Tandy is a film and television actor, born 8 February 1957 in Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. ...

Better known is her third play, September Tide, about a middle-aged woman whose bohemian artist son-in-law falls for her. The central character of Stella was originally based on Ellen Doubleday and was merely what Ellen might have been in an English setting and in a different set of circumstances. Again directed by Irene Hentschel, it opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 15 December 1948 with Gertrude Lawrence as Stella, enjoying a run of 267 performances before closing at the beginning of August 1949. It was to lead to a close personal and social relationship between Daphne and Gertrude. For other uses, see Bohemian (disambiguation). ... Aldwych Theatre in April 2007 The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located on Aldwych in the City of Westminster. ... is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gertrude Lawrence (July 4, 1898 - September 6, 1952) was an actress and musical performer popular in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing on stage in London and on Broadway, and in several films. ...

Since then September Tide has received occasional revivals, most recently at the Comedy Theatre in London in January 1994, starring film and stage actress Susannah York in the role originally created by Lawrence, with Michael Praed as the saturnine young artist. Reviewing the production for the Richmond & Twickenham Times, critic John Thaxter wrote: "The play and performances delicately explore their developing relationship. And as the September gales batter the Cornish coast, isolating Stella's cottage from the outside world, she surrenders herself to the truth of a moment of unconventional tenderness." The Royal Comedy Theatre, as it was then known, opened in Londons West End on October 15, 1881. ... York to the right together with Ilya Salkind on the set of Superman: The Movie, circa 1977 Susannah York (born Susannah Yolande Fletcher on January 9, 1939[1]) is an English actress. ... Michael Praed (pronounced , prayd)[1] (né Michael David Prince, born April 1, 1960 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire), a British actor, is probably best known for his role as Robin of Loxley (Robin Hood) in the British television series Robin of Sherwood, which attained cult status worldwide in the 1980s. ...

Publications

Fiction

• The Loving Spirit (1931)
• I'll Never Be Young Again (1932)
• Julius (1933)
• Jamaica Inn (1936)
• Rebecca (1938)
• Rebecca (1940) (play—du Maurier's own stage adaptation of her novel)
• Happy Christmas (1940) (short story)
• Come Wind, Come Weather (1940) (short story collection)
• Frenchman's Creek (1941)
• Hungry Hill (1943)
• The Years Between (1945) (play)
• The King's General (1946)
• September Tide (1948) (play)
• The Parasites (1949)
• My Cousin Rachel (1951)
• The Apple Tree (1952) (short story collection)
• The Scapegoat (1957)
• Early Stories (1959) (short story collection, stories written between 1927–1930^[16])
• The Breaking Point (1959) (short story collection, AKA The Blue Lenses)
• Castle Dor (1961) (with Sir Alfred Quiller-Couch^[17])
• The Birds and Other Stories (1963) (republication of The Apple Tree^[18])
• The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
• The House on the Strand (1969)
• Not After Midnight (1971) (short story collection, AKA Don't Look Now^[19])
• Rule Britannia (1972)

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Non-fiction

• Gerald (1934)
• The du Mauriers (1937)
• The Young George du Maurier (1951)
• Mary Anne (1954)
• The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1960)
• The Glass-Blowers (1963)
• Vanishing Cornwall (1967)
• Golden Lads (1975)
• The Winding Stairs (1976)
• Growing Pains—the Shaping of a Writer (1977) (AKA Myself When Young—the Shaping of a Writer)
• Enchanted Cornwall (1989)

Trivia

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• Daphne du Maurier was a member of the Cornish nationalist pressure group/political party Mebyon Kernow.
• In Ken Follett's thriller The Key to Rebecca, du Maurier's novel Rebecca is used as the key for a code used by a German spy in World War II Cairo.
• Neville Chamberlain is reputed to have read Rebecca on the plane journey which led to Adolf Hitler signing the Munich Agreement.
• The central character of her last novel, Rule Britannia, is an aging and eccentric actress who was based on Gertrude Lawrence and Gladys Cooper (to whom it is dedicated). However, the character is most recognisably du Maurier herself.
• Du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954) is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776-1852). Mary Anne Clarke from 1803 to 1808 was mistress of Frederick Augustus, the Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827). He was the "Grand Old Duke of York" of the nursery rhyme, a son of King George III and brother of the later King George IV.
• Du Maurier was spoofed by her slightly older fellow writer P.G. Wodehouse as "Daphne Dolores Morehead".

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See also

• The Queen's Book of the Red Cross
• Category:Novels by Daphne du Maurier

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References

• Kelly, Richard (1987). Daphne du Maurier. Boston: Twayne. ISBN 0-8057-6931-5. 
• Obituary in The Independent April 21, 1989
• Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, London, 1887– : Du Maurier, Dame Daphne (1907–1989); Browning, Sir Frederick Arthur Montague (1896–1965); Frederick, Prince, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827); Clarke, Mary Anne (1776?–1852).
• Du Maurier, Daphne, Mary Anne, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1954.

1. ^ du Maurier, Daphne | Richard Kelly (essay date 1987), "The World of the Macabre: The Short Stories," in Daphne Du Maurier, Twayne Publishers, 1987, pp. 123-40.
2. ^ Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier, Chatto & Windus.
3. ^ Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier.
4. ^ Judith Cook, Daphne, Bantam Press.
5. ^ Oriel Mallet, Letters from Menabilly, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
6. ^ Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier.
7. ^ Michael Thornton, "Daphne's terrible secret", Daily Mail (London), 11 May 2007.
8. ^ Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier.
9. ^ Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier.
10. ^ Daphne du Maurier, Myself When Young, Victor Gollancz.
11. ^ Martyn Shallcross, Daphne du Maurier Country, Bossiney Books.
12. ^ Oriel Mallet, Letters from Menabilly.
13. ^ BBC Interview, 1979.
14. ^ Oriel Mallet, Letters from Menabilly.
15. ^ John Thaxter, "The Years Between", The Stage, 10 September 2007.
16. ^ Early Stories at DuMaurier.org
17. ^ Castle Dor at DuMaurier.org
18. ^ The Birds at DuMaurier.org
19. ^ Not After Midnight at DuMaurier.org

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External links

• www.dumaurier.org - site promoting the annual The Daphne du Maurier

Festival of Arts & Literature, held during May at Fowey, Cornwall.

• Author's Calendar biography of Daphne du Maurier
• Interview with Daphne du Maurier—1977
• Website of The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, Yorkshire
• Web news magazine of the Brontë Parsonage Museum
• Du Maurier Festival 2007
• Fan site