Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier

Her father du Maurier portrayed in Gerald In 1831 Mary AnneĬlarke's daughter married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier. She later became the heroine of du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954). Was Mary Anne Clarke, the mistress of the duke of York, second son of Geraldĭecided to call her daughter Daphne after the actress Ethel Daphneīarrymore, whom he had wanted to marry, several years before he met Writing and created the mad hypnotist Svengali. George du Maurier, her mother, Muriel Beaumont, was an actress, and herįather was the actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, who turned to She was the granddaughter of caricaturist Purchasers never looked at anything but the beginning and the end.'ĭaphne du Maurier was born in London into an artistic family. Tearing out the middle pages to read at home, for prospective Hovering outside the bookshops, and when the bookseller was inside,

In wagons when the carter smiled, in scuffling with apprentice boys, in Adventure was in gazing into pawnbrokers' windows, in riding Offering it to an old gentleman who patted her head and gave her

Adventure was in picking up a posy dropped by a lady and The novel has been characterized as the last and mostįamous imitation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847). Orson Welles's radio adaptation from 1938 also paved way for Du Maurier is best known for Rebecca (1938), filmed by Alfred Hitchcock Playwright, who published romantic suspense novels, mostly set on theĬoast of Cornwall. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Zĭaphne du Maurier (1907-1989) - married name Lady Daphne Browning

Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier