In the 13 stories by du Maurier, there is always space for a laugh, a scare, and an active imagination that can run through this genre.
JUSTINE PICARDIE’S “Daphne,” which focuses on Daphne du Maurier’s life in crisis as she turns 50 and prepares to celebrate her silver wedding anniversary, is an engrossing and absorbing read. And as ...
To be famous for just one novel—even a novel as good as Rebecca—is a mixed blessing for any author. Daphne du Maurier wrote 17 novels, a few plays, and numerous short stories, but she’s known chiefly ...
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A look at the English novelist’s most compelling work in time for her 116th birth anniversary on May 13 “Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” PREMIUM Theatrical poster for the American ...
The series includes a biographical play, Beside Myself, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Bill Nighy Daphne du Maurier: Double Exposure, a fortnight of special programming across BBC Radio 4 and 4 ...
Two never-before-seen poems by celebrated writer Daphne du Maurier have been discovered hidden inside a photo frame 90 years later. The poems are believed to have been penned in the late 1920s by the ...
French novelist Tatiana de Rosnay (Sarah's Key) can’t stop dreaming of Manderley. She’s a lifelong fan of Daphne du Maurier’s novels, especially 1938’s Rebecca, with its British manor stuffed with ...
Daphne du Maurier remains one of the 20th century’s most popular and enigmatic writers, her life captivating readers as much as her works, as the most recent biography, Manderley Forever by Tatiana de ...
The Du Maurier sisters - known in the family as Piffy, Bird and Bing - sound as if they could have stepped out of an Enid Blyton novel. Given how wedded all three of them were to their childhoods, ...
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 ...
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