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Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist. Du Maurier spent much of her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive.
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culture · English novelist (1907–1989) · novelist · writer · screenwriter · playwright · biographer · science fiction writer · also Daphne du Maurier, Daphne Busson du Maurier Browning, Dame Daphne du Maurier, Dame Daphne Busson du Maurier, Maurier
Born 13 May 1907 · Died 19 April 1989 · Q193357
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier
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The Guardian: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier review – gaslighting and grief
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Rebecca review – Mrs Danvers steals the show in Du Maurier musical
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The Guardian: A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll review – haunting gothic tale with a heady whiff of Daphne du Maurier
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Rebecca to Rachel: 10 of the best Daphne du Maurier films
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2013· 1 entry
Grandson Ned Browning released a collection of men's and women's watches based on characters from the novel Rebecca, under the brand name du Maurier Watches
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2011· 2 entries
Of a collection of du Maurier's forgotten short stories, written when the author was 21, provides some insight into her mature style
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A plaque was mounted on Cannon Cottage in Well Street, Hampstead, put up by the Heath and Hampstead Society
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2002· 1 entry
Brazilian scholar Zahidé Lupinacci Muzare concluded that they are, in any case, much less alike than folk memory suggests
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Anthony Award for Rebecca (2000).
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1989· 5 entries
Died 1989-04-19.
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“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
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Some writers speculated about her alleged intimate physical relationships with a number of women, including Ellen Doubleday, the wife of her U
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“My novels are what is known as popular and sell very well, but I am not a critic’s favourite, indeed I am generally dismissed with a sneer as a bestseller and not reviewed at all.”
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“[As a child] I was always pretending to be someone else … historical characters, all those I invented for myself. I act even to this day. It's the old imagination working, a kind of make believe.”
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded The Grand Master (1978).
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1969· 2 entries
Was titled Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE, but she never used the title
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When she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969, she was titled Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE, but she never used the title.
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1965· 3 entries
That she had had an incestuous relationship with her father and that he had been a violent alcoholic
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And soon afterward Daphne moved to Kilmarth, near Par, Cornwall, which became the setting for The House on the Strand, and where she became an early member of Mebyon Kernow, a Cornish nationalist party
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The Daphne du Maurier Companion, edited by Helen Taylor, includes Taylor's claims that du Maurier confessed to her in 1965 that she had had an incestuous relationship with her father and that he had been a violent alcoholic.
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1963· 1 entry
Based on "The Birds" (1952) by du Maurier, Baker considered litigation against Universal Studios but his legal counsel stated: "The treatment of the general idea of attacks by birds in the two works is as different as it
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1948· 2 entries
When Lawrence had accepted the lead role in du Maurier's new play September Tide
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And continued with it in London's West End theatre district through 1949, and that later du Maurier visited them at their home in the United States
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1946· 1 entry
Still writing as Daphne du Maurier during her marriage, she was also known as Lady Browning after her husband was knighted in 1946.Biographers have claimed that du Maurier's marriage was at times somewhat chilly, and that she could be aloof and distant to her children, especially the girls, when immersed in her writing.
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1944· 1 entry
And then transferred to London, opening at Wyndham's Theatre on 10 January 1945, starring Nora Swinburne and Clive Brook
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1943· 1 entry
Wrote the autobiographically inspired drama The Years Between about the unexpected return of a senior officer, thought killed in action, who finds that his wife has taken his seat as Member of Parliament (MP) and has
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1938· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award (1938).
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1936· 1 entry
But she was already a successful author by then, and spent most of 1936 in Alexandria with her family
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1932· 1 entry
Du Maurier married Major (later Lieutenant-General) Frederick "Boy" Browning in 1932.
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1907· 2 entries
Born 1907-05-13.
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She was known as Daphne du Maurier from 1907 to 1932, when she married Frederick Browning.
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