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2 days ago · Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, became an actor and later also a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne du Maurier was a painter. She was a cousin of the Llewelyn Davies boys , who were J. M. Barrie 's inspiration for the characters in the play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up . [5]
Jul 9, 2024 · Rebecca, Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938. Widely considered a classic, it is a psychological thriller about a young woman who becomes obsessed with her husband’s first wife. Rebecca was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into a popular film (1940).
Jul 4, 2024 · Angela du Maurier (1904-2002) was the eldest of the three du Maurier sisters. She originally planned to be an actress and spent two seasons on the stage. During the Second World War, she worked as an ambulance driver in London.
3 days ago · Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from January to August 1894, it was published in book form on 8 September 1894 and sold 200,000 copies in the United States alone. [1] . Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris.
3 days ago · George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch and a Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali. His son was the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier.
Jul 15, 2024 · “I’ve always been obsessed with the gothic,” Fennell wrote in a January 2024 column for the Los Angeles Times.. “Whether it was Edward Gorey’s children who are variously choked by peaches, sucked dry by leeches, or smothered by rugs, Du Maurier’s imperiled heroines or the disturbing erotic power of Angela Carter’s fairy tales, the gothic world has always had me in its grip.
Jul 15, 2024 · Daphne du Maurier (born May 13, 1907, London, England—died April 19, 1989, Par, Cornwall) was an English novelist and playwright, daughter of actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, best known for her novel Rebecca (1938).
