Daphne Du Maurier

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Standard Name: Du Maurier, Daphne
Birth Name: Daphne du Maurier
Nickname: Bing
Married Name: Daphne Browning
DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed people and organizations as Alfred Hitchcock and the BBC . Nevertheless critical opinion of her filmed work has not been high. Because two romance novels, Rebecca and Frenchman's Creek, were DDM 's best-loved and most-remembered works, she struggled, without success, to prove her literary worth outside that genre for the rest of her career. She is often thought of as writing primarily for women, though she frequently used the male voice, and evidently felt at home in it.

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Publishing Mary Stewart
This work was serialized in Woman's Journal before book publication. An American edition appeared in 1955.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2769 (25 February 1955): 124
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
MS took her title from a folk-song which runs: Madam, will you walk? /...
Reception Margaret Forster
In a National Women's Register poll of members to determine the best woman writer of the twentieth century, MF came third with twenty-one votes, just behind Margaret Atwood with twenty-five and just ahead of Enid Blyton
Residence Edna O'Brien
EOB has called Tuamgraneyfervid, enclosed and catastrophic.
Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research.
574
She has written of the village women's reading as a form of escape from daily life: loose, torn-out pages of Gone With the Wind (by Margaret Mitchell
Residence Anne Katharine Elwood
In England they settled at Clayton Priory at Hassocks in Sussex, Charles Elwood's family home (a substantial mansion which had never been a religious foundation, but was built and landscaped about 1815, with a...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
On initial release Mistress of Mellyn sold more than a thousand copies.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
JP and Myrer kept the identity of Victoria Holt a secret for the first six books that Holt published: That was another good...
Textual Production Mary Stewart
The fourth novel by MS , Nine Coaches Waiting, was a governess novel, which has drawn comparisons with Daphne du Maurier 's Rebecca and Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2961 (28 November 1958): 684
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers.
19
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Susan Hill
In Mrs. de Winter, SH provided a sequel to Daphne Du Maurier 's novel Rebecca.
Sally Beauman does something similar in her Rebecca's Tale, 2001.
King, Florence. The Florence King Reader. St Martin’s Press.
260
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
139
Hill, Susan. Mrs. de Winter. Sinclair-Stevenson.
title-page
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
BL 's numerous plays for radio include some original and some adapted from other works: Laying Ghosts, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Velma and Therese (a parallel version of the film Thelma and...

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Texts

Du Maurier, Daphne. The Infernal World of Bramwell Brontë. Gollancz, 1960.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The King’s General. Gollancz, 1946.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Loving Spirit. Heinemann, 1931.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Parasites. Gollancz, 1949.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Progress of Julius. Heinemann, 1933.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories. Gollancz, 1981.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Rendezvous and Other Stories. Gollancz, 1980.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Scapegoat. Gollancz, 1957.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Winding Stair. Gollancz, 1976.
Du Maurier, Daphne. The Years Between. Gollancz, 1945.
Du Maurier, Daphne, editor. The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of His Letters, 1860-1867. Peter Davies, 1951.
Du Maurier, Daphne. Vanishing Cornwall. Gollancz, 1967.