Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (/duː ˈmɒrieɪ/; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents...
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three daughters: writers Angela du Maurier (1904–2002) and Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), and painter Jeanne du Maurier (1911–1997). His popularity was...
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son was the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier. The writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier and the artist Jeanne du Maurier were all granddaughters of...
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Rebecca (novel) (redirect from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier)
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier. The novel depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy...
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sister was the novelist Daphne du Maurier, and her grandfather was George du Maurier, a writer and cartoonist. Angela du Maurier was born on 1 March 1904...
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Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (redirect from Sylvia du Maurier)
George du Maurier and his wife Emma Wightwick, the elder sister to actor Gerald du Maurier, the aunt of novelists Angela and Daphne du Maurier, and a...
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The Scapegoat is a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier. In a bar in France, a lonely English academic on holiday meets his double, a French aristocrat who...
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Maurier and Muriel Beaumont, and sister of writers Daphne and Angela du Maurier. Jeanne du Maurier was born on 27 March 1911 in London, the youngest of...
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Not After Midnight, and Other Stories (category Short story collections by Daphne du Maurier)
collection of five long stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was first published in Britain by Gollancz (with a cover by du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower), and...
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The House on the Strand (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with a jacket illustration by her daughter...
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actor, son of George Angela du Maurier (1904–2002), British author and eldest daughter of Sir Gerald Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), British author...
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My Cousin Rachel (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
My Cousin Rachel is a Gothic novel written by English author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Bearing thematic similarities to her earlier and more...
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Frenchman's Creek (novel) (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair...
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Milton Hall (section Link to Daphne du Maurier)
January 2005). In 1917 when the hall housed an auxiliary hospital, Daphne du Maurier made the first of several visits to Milton at the age of ten along...
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directed by Clare Beavan. The film is based on the authorised biography, Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller by Margaret Forster....
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The Birds (story) (category Short stories by Daphne du Maurier)
by the British writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in her 1952 collection The Apple Tree. The story is set in du Maurier's home county of Cornwall...
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The King's General (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
published in 1946, by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier. It was the first novel du Maurier wrote while living at Menabilly, the setting for...
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1900s. The name increased in use in the Anglosphere after author Daphne du Maurier rose to prominence in the 1940s and 1950s. Usage also increased after...
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in this regard was Daphne du Maurier. During those months in England [when September Tide was in production], Gertrude and Daphne formed a warm friendship...
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The Scapegoat (1959 film) (category Films based on works by Daphne du Maurier)
Hamer and Gore Vidal based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. John Barratt, a lonely, discontented teacher of French at a British...
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Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier is a fictional character in the TV series Hannibal. Unlike most characters in the stories, Du Maurier is an original creation, and...
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Muriel Beaumont (redirect from Muriel Beaumont Busson du Maurier)
and manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and mother of the writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier and artist Jeanne du Maurier. Muriel Beaumont was born...
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Kingdom in 1930 after the actor and producer Sir Gerald du Maurier (father of writer Daphne du Maurier) made requests for "a cigarette less irritating to his...
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du Maurier, his wife Muriel Beaumont, and their three children, the writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier and the painter Jeanne du Maurier...
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of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Twentieth-century contributors include Daphne du Maurier, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Anne Rice, and Toni Morrison. Gothic...
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Rule Britannia (novel) (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
Rule Britannia is Daphne du Maurier's last novel, published in 1972 by Victor Gollancz. The novel is set in a fictional near future in which the UK's...
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The Loving Spirit (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
The Loving Spirit was the first novel of Daphne du Maurier and was published in 1931 by William Heinemann. The book takes its name from a line in the...
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writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair based on the short story No Motive by Daphne du Maurier. Utharam is considered one of the best investigative thrillers in...
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The Parasites (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1949. The novel follows an emotionally entangled bohemian family, the Delaneys, who...
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Castle Dor (category Novels by Daphne du Maurier)
Castle Dor is a 1961 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch), set in 19th century Cornwall. Castle Dor began life as the...
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