The Housekeeper’ fictionalises the roots of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic masterpiece — while a memoir by her grandson tells the ...

"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 ...

Daphne du Maurier put a 50 year embargo on her most private journals and notebooks, keeping them secret until after her death Her dark novels allowed generations of readers to fall in love with ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Seventy-five years after Daphne du Maurier published 'Rebecca’, her son tells Christian House how the author’s own torrid life inspired this enduring story The seed of the Rebecca story lay in Daphne ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...