"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 ...

Best known for novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, interest in Daphne du Maurier's work and private life has never waned; new adaptions of her stories continue to grace cinema and television screens ...

“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 ...

Simon Callow on the fascinating lives of the Du Mauriers, lesbian London and a love affair with a Cornish house Piers Dudgeon's contentious, aggressive but haunting study Captivated offers an account ...

In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, “The Birds” (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war. Birds, as the 2022 State of the ...

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 ...

Tatiana de Rosnay tells us that, at the age of 11, when she first opened a copy of “Rebecca,” she “had no idea how important that novel would become in my life.” We may believe her, but its author, ...

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 ...

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 ...