Daphne du maurier

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

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What begins as a taste for this author’s twisty plots, briny wit and bracingly bleak view of marriage can become an addiction.

Two poems by the British novelist were found stashed in a photo frame around 90 years after she penned the pieces, one of which is on theme of loneliness and the blissful state of childhood.

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier (U.K., 1938)

Daphne du Maurier would summon her male alter-ego Eric Avon as a child. She had her first love affair at 18, with the headmistress of her French finishing school.

Hilary Macaskill makes a pilgrimage to the beautiful landscapes that inspired Daphne du Maurier to write Rebecca. From her beloved house Menabilly to Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, the author is never far away.

by Bassano Ltd whole-plate glass negative 24 July 1930 © National Portrait Gallery, London