As children, the three du Maurier daughters were so close they invented their own language. Middle child Daphne, however, was by far their father’s favorite, which he openly acknowledged.

not least because the truth of her life was darker than any of her plots Author Daphne du Maurier walking with her children Flavia, left, Kits and Tessa, at home in Cornwall, June 1944.

Arranging to spend time away from her children. “I am not one of those ... In 2007, to mark the centenary of Daphne du Maurier's birth, the BBC produced two documentaries on the author.

Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907 to two famous actors ... in 1932, and had three children with him. She died on April 19, 1989, aged 81, at her home in Cornwall.

Seventy-five years after Daphne du Maurier published 'Rebecca’, her ... the then-abandoned house of Menabilly more than her two children (Kits had yet to be born). It was at Milton Hall that ...

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 ...

University of Hull provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological ...