Daphne du Maurier

Daphne du Maurier is probably the most famous of our Cornish authors, possibly because many of her books made it to the silver screen courtesy of Alfred Hitchcock.  People are often surprised that The Birds was written by du Maurier but anyone living nose to beak with seagulls will not be surprised to see them turn up in a horror novel. She fell in love with Cornwall and lived at Menabilly just outside Fowey.   Although Menabilly is closed to the public the surrounding area provides inspiration for her books and anyone who has walked through the giant red rhododendrons of Heligan or Gendurgan will recognize the passages from Rebecca.

 

 

 

Du Maurier was an avid supporter of Cornwall and the Cornish way of life and deplored the changing nature she felt that modern life was imposing on Cornwall.  Some of her non fiction titles reflect her loves and concerns. She was also surrounded by writers; her elder sister was Angela du Maurier, also a writer and her grandfather was the writer George du Maurier.

 

 

 

 

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Fiction

 

The Loving Spirit (1931)

 

 

I'll Never Be Young Again (1932)

 

The Progress of Julius (1933) (later re-published as Julius)

Jamaica Inn (1936)

Rebecca (1938)

Rebecca (1940) (play—du Maurier's own stage adaptation of her novel)

Happy Christmas (1940) (short story)

Come Wind, Come Weather (1940) (short story collection)

Frenchman's Creek (1941)

Hungry Hill (1943)

The Years Between (1945) (play)

The King's General (1946)

September Tide (1948) (play)

The Parasites (1949)

My Cousin Rachel (1951)

The Apple Tree (1952) (short story collection, AKA Kiss Me Again, Stranger)

Mary Anne (1954)

The Scapegoat (1957)

Early Stories (1959) (short story collection, stories written between 1927–1930[14])

The Breaking Point (1959) (short story collection, AKA The Blue Lenses)

Castle Dor (1961) (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch[15])

The Birds and Other Stories (1963) (republication of The Apple Tree[16])

The Glass-Blowers (1963)

The Flight of the Falcon (1965)

The House on the Strand (1969)

Not After Midnight (1971) (short story collection, AKA Don't Look Now[17])

Rule Britannia (novel)|Rule Britannia (1972)

"The Rendezvous and Other Stories" (1980) (short story collection)

 

 

 

Non-fiction

 

Gerald (1934)

The du Mauriers (1937)

The Young George du Maurier (1951)

The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1960)

Vanishing Cornwall (includes photographs by her son Christian)(1967)

Golden Lads (1975)

The Winding Stairs (1976)

Growing Pains -— the Shaping of a Writer (1977) (a.k.a. Myself When Young -— the Shaping of a Writer)

Enchanted Cornwall (1989)