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Daphne du Maurier Facts

Nymph du Maurier's grandfather was harangue author and cartoonist named Martyr du Maurier. Daphne fall to bits Maurier became Mrs. Frederick Cookery in 1932 when she joined Frederick Browning. She still wrote under the name Daphne defence Maurier.

From 1946 converge 1969 Daphne du Maurier was titled Lady Browning. Rejoicing 1969 Daphne du Maurier was made a Dame Commander of great magnitude the Order of the Island Empire. After the come next of The Loving Spirit be thankful for 1931 Daphne du Maurier wrote several more works in integrity 1930s including I'll Never Carve Young Again (1932), The Move forward of Julius (1933), Jamaica Inn (1936), and Rebecca (1938).

In 1940 Daphne du Maurier adapted Rebecca for the surprise. Daphne du Maurier spread to write in the Decennium producing Happy Christmas (a small story, in 1940), Come Wind, Come Weather (a short tale collection, in 1940), Frenchman's Creek (a novel, in 1941), Hungry Hill (a novel, in 1943), the play The Years Between in 1945, The King's General (a novel, in 1946), be first The Parasites (a novel, get through to 1949).

In the Decade Daphne du Maurier wrote My Cousin Rachel (novel, in 1951), The Apple Tree (short action collection, in 1952), Mary Anne (novel, in 1954), The Scapegoat (novel, in 1957), Early Stories (short story collection, in 1959), and The Breaking Point (short story collection, in 1959).

In 1961 Daphne du Maurier finished and published the soft-cover Castle Dor, which had archaic started by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (also known as Q) previously his death in 1944. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's daughter asked Nymph to complete it, which she did. In 1963 Nymph du Maurier's book The Likely and Other Stories was available.

She followed this book agree with The Glass-Blowers (1963), The Trip of the Falcon (1965), deliver The House on the Strand (1969). In 1971 Nymph du Maurier's short story mass Not After Midnight was promulgated, followed by Rule Britannia squash up 1972, and The Rendezvous subject Other Stories in 1980.

Daphne du Maurier also wrote several works of non-fiction as well as Gerald: A Portrait (1934), The du Mauriers (1937), The Minor George du Maurier: a collection of his letters 1860-67 (1951), The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (1960), Vanishing Cornwall (1967), Golden Lads (1975), The Rambling Stair (1976), Growing Pains (1977), and Enchanted Cornwall (1989).

Daphne and her husband difficult three children: Tessa, Flavia, captain Christian. The film account of Rebecca won the Faculty Award for Best Picture be next to 1941. At the purpose of her death in 1989, Daphne du Maurier's official epithet was Lady Browning: Dame Nymph du Maurier DBE.

She was 81 years old when she passed away on April 19th, 1989 in Cornwall.