![]() ![]() 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. zip of the website is also available.ĭaphne du Maurier (1907-1989) - married name Lady Daphne Browning All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. 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 Z ![]()
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