Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), …
Daphne Du Maurier
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Дафна Дю Морье, Дафна дзю Мар'е, Maurier, and 59 others
دو موريه، دفنه, Daphné Du Maurier, Dafna Dyumorʹye, Daphné du Maurier, Dāfnī Dū Mūriyīh, 达夫妮・杜穆里埃, Du Maurier, Δάφνη Ντι Μωριέ, دافني دو مورييه, デュ・モーリア, Дафни дю Морие, Daphne Du Maurier Browning, Dafne di Morjē, Browning, Daphne du Maurier Browning, דפנה דה מוריה, ダフネ デュ・モーリア, Daphne du Maurierová, دافنه دو موريه،, Dafne Di Morjē, ダフネ デュ・モーリエ, دافنه دوموریه, Dafnija Di Morjē, דפנה דה מוריא, Daphne du Maurier, ダフネ・デュ・モーリア, Dafnija Dju-Morje, דפנה די מוריה, Dafni Dju-Mor'e, דפנה די-מוריא, دافنه دو مورييه،, Дафна дю Мор'є, مورييه، دافنه دو،, Mrs. Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, Daphner Du Maurier, Dafna Di︠u︡ Morʹe, Дафна Дюморье, Дюморье, Дафне ду Мауриер, Дю Морие, Dafuni Dumuli'ai, דפנה דה מוריאה, דפנה די מוריאה, دو موريه، دافنه،, دي مورييه، دافني،, 達夫妮·莫里哀, Dafna Diu Mor'e, Daphne Du Maurier, Daphne Browning, דפנה די מוריר, Dapnne Du Maurier, Daphne DuMaurier, דפנה די מורייה, ديموريير، دافني،, ダフネ デュ・モオリア, Browning Du Maurier, دافنا ديۋموريە, 대프니 듀 모리에, Dafne Djumor'e - Born:
- May 12, 1907
- Died:
- April 18, 1989
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Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 in London, England, United Kingdom, the second of three daughters of Muriel Beaumont, an actress and maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont, and Sir Gerald du Maurier, the prominent actor-manager, son of the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. She was also the cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys, who served as J.M. Barrie's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. As a young child, she met many of the brightest stars of the theatre, thanks to the celebrity of her father. These connections helped her in establishing her literary career, and she published some of her early stories in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931, and she continued writing successfull gothic novels in addition to biographies and other non-fiction books. Alfred Hitchcock was a fan of her novels and short stories, and adapted some of these to films: Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940), and The Birds (1963). Other of her works adapted were Frenchman's Creek (1942), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1951), and "Don't Look Now" (1973). She was named a Dame of the British Empire.
In 1932, she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, with whom she had three children, Tessa, Flavia and Christian. Her husband died in 1965, and she passed away on 19 April 1989 in Fowey, Cornwall. After her death, it was revealed that she was bisexual.
Books by Daphne Du Maurier
Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes
by Mary Shelley, Stephen Marlowe, Daphne Du Maurier, and 13 others
