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- Daphne du Maurier moved to Cornwall in the late 1920s. She gained inspiration from the towns and landmarks around Cornwall to set her novels.
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Du Maurier spent her childhood at Cannon Hall, Hampstead, the family's London residence, and summers at their home in Fowey, Cornwall, where they also lived during the war years. Personal life. Menabilly house in Fowey, which du Maurier leased in 1943. She restored it from a neglected state, and made it her home until 1969.
Du Maurier was made a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1969. She published an autobiography, Growing Pains, in 1977; the collection The Rendezvous and Other Stories in 1980; and a literary reminiscence, The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories, in 1981.
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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...
"The Birds" is a horror story by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. The story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall shortly after the end of the Second World War .
Jun 13, 2017 · Much more than a romance writer, Daphne du Maurier inspired Hitchcock classics, dabbled in sci-fi, and even predicted Brexit, writes Lucy Scholes.
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13th May 1907 at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park, London. Her father Gerald du Maurier, though largely forgotten now, was in his day a famous actor-manager, who was treated as something of a matinee idol by his adoring audiences.
Daphne du Maurier moved into Menabilly in time for Christmas 1943 and never left Cornwall again except for unavoidable excursions or holidays. She called Menabilly her ‘House of Secrets’ and loved it, possibly more than anything else.
