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Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Female : Novelist. 2nd daughter of Sir Gerald Du Maurier (actor) & grandaughter of George Du Maurier. Married Lieut-Gen Sir Frederick Browning in 1932
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1907 Date of Death : 1989 Age : 82
All Gollancz unless stated
1931-1940
The Loving Spirit
(1931 Heinemann) (1931 Doubleday)
I'll Never be Young Again
(1932 Heinemann) (1941 Sun Dial Press, NY)
The Progress of Julius
(1933 Heinemann)
Gerald : A Portrait
(1934)
Jamaica Inn
(1936) (1936 Doubleday)
The Du Mauriers
(1937)
Rebecca
(1938) (1938 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1940]
[By far and away her most sought after book. A fine copy in a dustwrapper sold at auction in 2004 for £3760]
Come Wind, Come Weather
(1940 Heinemann pb) (1941 Doubleday Pb) - ss
Happy Christmas
(1940 Doubleday) (1943 Todd Publishing) - ss

1941-1950
Frenchman's Creek
(1941 8/-) (1942 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1944]
Consider the Lilies
(1943 Polybooks/Todd Publishing Pb) - ss
Escort
(1943 Polybooks/Todd Publishing Pb) - ss
Nothing Hurts for Long & Escort
(1943 Polybooks/Todd Publishing Pb) - ss
Hungry Hill
(1943 10/6) (1943 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1946]
Spring Picture
(1944 Todd Publishing) - ss
Rebecca
(1944) - Play (premiered at Queen's Theatre, April 1940)
Leading Lady
(1945 Polybooks/Vallancey Press Pb) - ss
London and Paris
(1945 Polybooks/Vallancey Press Pb) - ss
The Years Between
(1945) - Play (Premiered at Wyndham's Theatre, Jan 1945)
[Filmed in 1946]
The King's General
(1946 9/6) (1946 Doubleday)
September Tide
(1949) - Play (premiered at Aldwych Theatre, Dec 1948)
The Parasites
(1949) (1950 Doubleday)

1951-1970
My Cousin Rachel
(1951 12/6) (1952 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1952]
(Ed) The Young George Du Maurier : A Selection of His Letters (1951 Peter Davies)
The Apple Tree
(1952) - ss
[Includes 'The Birds', which spawned the Hitchcock film of 1963]
Mary Anne : A Novel
(1954 12/6) (1954 Doubleday)
Daphne Du Maurier : Early Stories
(1954 Bantam) (1955 Harrap)
The Scapegoat
(1957) (1957 Doubleday)
[Filmed in 1959]
The Breaking Point
(1959) (1959 Doubleday) - ss
The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
(1960)
The Lover
(1961 Ace Pb) - ss
Castle Dor
(1962 Dent) (1962 Doubleday) - with Sir A Quiller-Couch
The Glassblowers
(1963) (1963 Doubleday)
The Birds and Other Stories
(1963 Penguin)
The Flight of the Falcon
(1965) (1965 Doubleday)
Vanishing Cornwall
(1967) (1967 Doubleday)
The House on the Strand
(1969) (1969 Doubleday)

After 1971
Not After Midnight : Five Long Stories
(1971 £2.50) - ss including 'Don't Look Now'
Rule Britannia
(1972) (1972 Doubleday)
The Golden Lads
(1975) (1975 Doubleday) - biography
The Winding Stair : Francis Bacon, his Rise and Fall
(1976) (1977 Doubleday)
Echoes from the Macabre
(1976) (1976 Doubleday) - ss
Growing Pains : The Shaping of a Writer
(1977) - autobiography
The Rendezvous
(1980) - ss
The Rebecca Notebook & other Memories
(1980 Doubleday) (1981)
Classics of the Macabre
(1987) - ss. 250 copies Michael Foreman (1987 Doubleday)
[A Du Maurier story was filmed in 1973 as "Don't Look Now"]

READING
R Kelly : Daphne Du Maurier
(1987)
Judith Cook : Daphne - A Portrait
(1991)
Martyn Shallcross : The Private World of Daphne Du Maurier
(1991 Robson £14.95)
Margaret Forster : Daphne Du Maurier - A Biography
(1993)
(Ed) Oriel Malet : Daphne Du Maurier - Portrait of a Friendship (1993 Weidnefeld & Nicolson £18.99)

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