"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: 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 ...

"Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again." That's the immortal opening sentence of Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier's 1938 masterpiece. How often have I been lured in to both the novel and the 1940 ...

Poems believed to have been written by the Rebecca author in her 20s were found by auctioneers before a sale of intimate letters A handful of youthful poems by Daphne du Maurier have been found in an ...

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 ...

“It was three months after she died that he first noticed the apple tree.” This is how Daphne du Maurier’s 1952 story “The Apple Tree” begins. Readers familiar with her most read work, Rebecca, are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nicholas Shakespeare relishes Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters by Jane Dunn, a tender portrait of three sisters who never got over the handicap of not being boys. Nicholas Shakespeare 04 March 2013 • ...