Bibliography: Daphne du Maurier - Related Books
PUBLICATION DETAILS | DESCRIPTION | YEAR |
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Daphne du Maurierby Richard Kelly | Twayne Publishers, A Division of G.K. Hall & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. | 1987 |
| A detailed analysis of her novels and short stories, and a close look at the films based on her work, Richard Kelly's Daphne du Maurier is invaluable for fans of her books and movies alike. | ||
Daphne du Maurier Countryby Martyn Shallcross | Bossiney Books, St Teath, Bodmin, Cornwall. | 1987 |
| Daphne du Maurier Country presents a look at the Cornwall in which Daphne du Maurier set her stories. | ||
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Warsby Alison Light | Routledge, London. | 1991 |
| This book looks at literature in England between the two World Wars and beyond, and includes a close consideration of Daphne du Maurier's work among others. | ||
Daphne: A Portrait of Daphne du Maurierby Judith Cook | Transworld Publishers Ltd, London. | 1991 |
| An excellent straightforward biography of Daphne du Maurier and her works. | ||
The Private World of Daphne du Maurierby Martyn Shallcross | Robson Books Ltd, London. | 1991 |
| St Martin's Press, New York, USA | 1992 | |
| An early biography of Daphne du Maurier, written by Martyn Shallcross, who is said to have known her well. | ||
Daphne du Maurier: Letters From Menabilly - Portrait of a Friendshipedited by Oriel Malet | Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. | 1993 |
| M. Evans & Company, New York. | 1994 | |
| The correspondence between Oriel Malet and Daphne du Maurier, which took place over thirty years. | ||
Daphne du Maurierby Margaret Forster | Chatto & Windus, London. | 1993 |
| Doubleday, New York, USA. | 1993 | |
| The US edition is called Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of a Renouned Storyteller. The du Maurier Browning family chose Margaret Forster to write the official Daphne du Maurier biography. | ||
Daphne du Maurier: A Daughter's memoirby Flavia Leng | Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh and London | 1994 |
| A moving and revealing memoir written by Daphne du Maurier's younger daughter, Flavia, in which she describes life as the daughter of one of the twentieth centurys most inspiring authors. | ||
Daring to Dissent: Lesbian Culture From Margin to Mainstreamedited by Liz Gibbs. | Cassell, London | 1994 |
| Lesbian culture has developed at an incredible pace in the UK and US since the 1960s. Daring to Dissent explores a plethora of lesbian media to reveal a dazzling diversity of talent. The text includes references to Angela du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier and Daphne's most famous novel, Rebecca. | ||
The du Maurier CompanionCompiled by Stanley Vickers and edited by Diana King. | Fowey Rare Books, Fowey, Cornwall. | 1997 |
| This book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive collection in chronological order of all the du Mauriers' (George, Daphne and Angela) literary achievements, a short biographical history and a family tree. This companion covers the novels, plays, films, autobiographical and biographical titles, and short story collections, bringing together the history and literary output of these famous writiers. | ||
Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imaginationby Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik | Macmillan Press Ltd, London. | 1998 |
| St Martin's Press, Inc., New York. | 1998 | |
| The first full length evaluation of Daphne du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik examine a range of du Maurier's novels and short stories and argue that, as well as inscribing the progress of an evolving writing self, her work also explores both personal and broader cultural anxieties concerning sexual and social identity. | ||
Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictionby Paulina Palmer | Cassell, London. | 1999 |
| Lesbian Gothic traces the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction over the twenty five years from the 1970s to the date of publication of this volume. It discusses a wide selection of novels and stories contextualizing and re-evaluating them in the light of changing currents in lesbian/queer culture and politics. Daphne du Maurier and her novel Rebecca are included in the discussion. | ||
Daphne du Maurier: Haunted Heiressby Nina Auerbach | PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, US. | 2000 |
| This book describes a Daphne du Maurier whose sharp edged fiction, with its brutal and often perverse family relationships, has been softened in such movies as Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, The Birds and Don't Look Now, all based on her work. Auerbach reads both du Maurier's life in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and time that is now gone but which haunts the fringes of our own age. | ||
Jane Slade of Polruan: The inspiration for Daphne du Maurier's first novelby Helen Doe | Truran, Cornwall. | 2002 |
| Fifty years after her death the story of Jane and her family inspired a budding young Daphne du Maurier to write her first novel, The Loving Spirit. Here the facts behind the fiction are recounted, the real Jane Slade is revealed and she and her family take thier places in the history of Cornwall. | ||
The Double in the Fiction of R.L.Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurierby Natalie Abi-Ezzi. | Peter Lang AG, Bern, Switzerland. | 2003 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins and Daphne du Maurier are authors of particular importance to the literature of the double, having produced, among other works, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Woman in White, and Rebecca. Each also rejected the prevailing social order of his or her time, a factor that plays an important role in determining how the double is represented and treated. | ||
The Popular and Canonical: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940 - 2000Edited by David Johnson. | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London. | 2005 |
| The Popular and the Canonical offers an exciting and innovative way of reading the literature of the second half of the twentieth century. Following a chronological sequence this volume provides introductions to critical debate, close critical analysis of the language of key literary texts, and historical contextualization of the production and reception of these debates. Daphne du Maurier and her novel, Rebecca are included in the discussions. | ||
The Daphne du Maurier CompanionEdited by Helen Taylor. | Virago Press, London. | 2007 |
| In this celebration of Daphne du Maurier's achievements today's leading writers, critics and academics discuss the novels, short stories and biographies that made her one of the most spellbinding and genre-defying authors of her generation. The film versions of her books are also explored, including Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and The Birds, and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now. This book was published to celebrate Daphne du Maurier's centenary year. | ||
Reading Daphne: A guide to the writing of Daphne du Maurier for readers and book groupsby Ella Westland. | Truran, Cornwall. | 2007 |
| This lively guide is designed for people who want to get the most out of their reading. Its unique format presents intriguing themes of du Maurier's work through extracts, and explores five famous novels in depth. While revealing the extraordinary range of Daphne du Maurier's writing, the guide gives special attention her the famous fiction set in Cornwall. This book was published to celebrate Daphne du Maurier's centenary year. | ||
Captivated: J.M. Barrie, the du Mauriers & the Dark Side of Neverlandby Piers Dudgeon | Chatto & Windus, London. | 2008 |
| The central characters are J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, a man tormented by inner demons since childhood: George du Maurier, the creator of Svengali, who showed how it is possible by means of hypnosis for one person to gain control over the mind of another; and Daphne du Maurier, George's enigmatic granddaughter, author of Rebecca, and secret chronicler of her family's story. | ||
Daphne du Maurier's Cornwallby Bret Hawthorne. | Halsgrove Discovery Series, Halsgrove, Somerset. | 2010 |
| Bret Hawthorne follows in the footsteps of Daphne du Maurier to discover the actual locations that inspired her. With direct reference to her writing and through specially taken photographs' the reader is led on a tour of the real-life places, often of outstanding beauty, which were chosen as a background to the novels, places which often played an important role themselves in bringing alive du Maurier'senduring work. | ||
Sur pas de Daphne du Maurier: Au pays des souffleurs de verreby Anne Hall. | Editions du Cherche-Lune, France. | 2010 |
| A book about Daphne du Maurier's French glass blowing ancestors, with an introduciton by Daphne du Maurier daughter, Tessa Montgomery. This book is in the French language. | ||
Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishnessby Ina Habermann | Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire. | 2010 |
| Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular 'middlebrow' authors imagine and shape the nation, providing a fresh and innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity. | ||
Resurrection, Renaissance, Rebirth: Religion, Psychology and Politics in the Life and Work of DduMby Melanie Heeley | VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Germany. | 2010 |
| This book explicates Daphne du Maurier's religious meanderings, and their psychological and political consequences. | ||
The Official Guide to Daphne du Maurier in CornwallVarious authors and contributors. | Creative Media Publishing Ltd., UK. | 2011 |
| The complete guide of where to go and what to see in Daphne du Maurier country. | ||
The Three du Maurier Sisters: Daphne, Angela and Jeanneby Michael Willams | Polperro Heritage Press, Worcestershire. | 2012 |
| Michael Williams recalls the three du Maurier sisters: Daphne, Angela and Jeanne. They were, he says, 'three gifted women rather like that colony of beautifu standing stones, The Hurlers, out on Bodmin Moor. Kindred spirits yet strong individuality.' | ||
Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Life of Piffy, Bird and Bingby Jane Dunn. | HarperPress (an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers), London. | 2013 |
| All three du Maurier sisters were haunted by the ghosts of their ancestors and the powerful presence of their parents. But the hidden lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing were full of social and sexual non-conformity, creative energy and compulsive make-believe. In a story as surprising and psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel, Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters reveals the struggle for identity and the love and rivalry at the heart of this most fascinating family. | ||
Daphne du Maurier at Homeby Hilary Macaskill | Frances Lincoln Ltd., Aurum Publishing Group, London. | 2013 |
| Hilary Macaskill explores the homes and landscapes of Daphne du Maurier's life, and how these relate to her work in sometimes surprising ways. | ||
The Making of Hitchcock's The Birdsby Tony Lee Moral. | Kamera Books, an imprint of Oldcastle Books, Hertfordshire. | 2013 |
| The first book-length treatment on the production of this modernist masterpiece, The Making of Hitchcock's the Birds marks the films 50th anniversary. | ||
The Real Peter Pan: The Tragic Life of Michael Llewelyn Daviesby Piers Dudgeon | The Robson Press, an imprint of Biteback Publishing, London. | 2015 |
| A true story of friendship, love and childhood innocence, shot through with joy, but terminated by tragedy. The Real Peter Pan is the moving story of a boy who would never grow up. | ||
Manderley for everby Tatiana de Rosnay | Albin Michel, France. | 2015 |
| The first French biography to be written about Daphne du Maurier. This book is in the French language. | ||
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurierby Tatiana de Rosnay | St. Martin's Press, New York, USA. | 2017 |
| Tatiana de Rosnay's biography of Daphne du Maurier, translated from the French for the American market. | ||
Manderley Forever: The Life of Daphne di Maurierby Tatiana de Rosnay | Allen & Unwin, c/o Atlantic Books, London. | 2017 |
| Tatiana de Rosnay's biography of Daphne du Maurier, translated from the French for the British market. | ||
Daphne du Maurier: Looking InwardTeresa Petersen | Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., London. | 2017 |
| In this study of Daphne du Maurier's novels and short stories, the author, Teresa Petersen, explores the possibility that inceset is at the core of du Maurier's craft. Her argument is that incest occurs so frequently that it is not a coincidence. | ||
The du Mauriers: Just As They Wereby Anne Hall | Unicorn, an imprint of Unicorn Publishing Ltd., London. | 2018 |
| A superb biography of five generations of the du Maurier family, beginning with Mathurin-Robert Busson, a master glass blower who imigrated to England in 1789, adding the suffix du Maurier to his name. | ||
Jung's Shadow Concept: The Hidden Light and Darkness within OurselvesEdited by Christopher Perry and Rupert Tower. | Routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. | 2023 |
| This fascinating book will be of interest to the general public, Jungian analysts, scholars and therapists both in training and practice with an interest in the inner world. Chapter 5 - The Shadow in Literature: Daphne du Maurier's 'The Scapegoat', written by her grandson, Rupert Tower, is of particular interest. | ||
Four French Holidaysby Anne Hall. | Unicorn, an imprint of Unicorn Publishing Ltd., Lewis, East Sussex. | 2023 |
| The full title of this book is Four French Holidays: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France. The Daphne du Maurier section of the book focuses principally on The Scapegoat. | ||