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Daphne du Maurier - An IntroductionDame Daphne du Maurier (Lady Browning) 1907 - 1989, DBE 1969, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
She was the second of three sisters and had a privileged upbringing in Hampstead. The family bought a holiday home in Cornwall in the 1920s and that house - Ferryside at Bodinnick - became Daphne's favourite haunt and a place of solitude that enabled her to work seriously on her early writing career. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931 and her success went from strength to strength. In 1932 she married Frederick Browning, a military man, and they had three children. She lived at Menabilly, the Rashleigh owned manor house just outside Fowey, for about 25 years and wrote many of her books in a writing-hut in the grounds with a view over The Gribbin (pictured above). She continued to live a privileged life, with staff to run her home and look after the children, and was proud to be the family breadwinner with the success of her writing.
Daphne died in 1989 and today her following is large and varied. She is read and studied by students at school and university but also by men and women, of all ages, who just enjoy the pleasure of reading her works. Interest in her is worldwide. | Read more...
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