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.

These insider snippets of information were reserved for audience members at the Daphne du Maurier Festival in Fowey last Saturday, where du Maurier's three children shared memories of their famous ...

Her children were chaff on her emotional radar ... and which bears no relation to anything in heaven or earth.” Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters:The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing ...

St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-2500-9913-6 Novelist De Rosnay’s (The Other Story) nonfiction debut is a fascinating, in-depth portrait of Daphne du Maurier, the prolific author of the ...

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 ...

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 ...