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3	->''"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."''
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5	Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. The daughter of two actors (Sir Gerald du Maurier and Muriel Beaumont), she was born in London but spent much of her life in UsefulNotes/{{Cornwall}}, where most of her works are set.
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7	Although she's usually classed as a romantic novelist, her stories are actually almost Gothic, with overtones of the paranormal. Her works were bestsellers but weren't taken seriously by critics at first, although she has since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many of her novels and short stories have been successfully adapted into films, including three by Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
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9	Du Maurier was married to the [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships British Army]] officer Frederick Browning, who commanded the Airborne Division at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden Arnhem]]. They actually first met while he was visiting Cornwall on holiday, having been inspired to go there after reading her first novel, ''The Loving Spirit''. After their marriage, she continued writing under her maiden name. In later life she became somewhat reclusive, to the point of not telling anyone she'd been made a Dame in 1969 (her children only found out about it from the newspapers) and even trying to get out of going to the ceremony. That said, she was very vocal about the negative portrayal of her late husband in the war film ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'', and appeared as a castaway on ''Radio/DesertIslandDiscs'' in 1977 (her chosen book being the collected works of Creator/JaneAusten).
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12	!!Works by Daphne du Maurier include...
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14	* ''The Loving Spirit'' (1931)
15	* ''I'll Never Be Young Again'' (1932)
16	* ''The Progress of Julius'' (1933) - later republished as ''Julius''
17	* ''Literature/JamaicaInn'' (1936) - adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] by Creator/AlfredHitchcock in 1939; later adapted into a TV series in 1983 and 2014
18	* ''Literature/{{Rebecca}}'' (1938) - adapted into a stage play [[SelfAdaptation by Daphne herself]] in 1939 (not to be confused with the later [[Theatre/{{Rebecca}} musical]]), and made into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] by Creator/AlfredHitchcock in 1940; subsequently adapted for TV in 1979, 1997 and 2020
19	* ''Frenchman's Creek'' (1941) - adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] in 1944 starring Creator/JoanFontaine, who'd previously played the second Mrs de Winter in ''Rebecca'', and again in 1998 as a TV movie starring Creator/TaraFitzgerald and marking the debut role of Creator/AnnaPopplewell as her daughter.
20	* ''Hungry Hill'' (1943)
21	* ''The Years Between'' (1944) - stage play, adapted into a [[Film/TheYearsBetween film]] in 1946
22	* ''The King's General'' (1946)
23	* ''September Tide'' (1948) - stage play
24	* ''The Parasites'' (1949)
25	* ''Literature/MyCousinRachel'' (1951) - adapted into a [[Film/MyCousinRachel1952 film]] in 1952, and [[Film/MyCousinRachel2017 later again]] in 2017
26	* ''The Apple Tree'' (1952) - short stories, later republished as ''[[Literature/TheBirds The Birds]] and Other Stories'' as a result of the [[Film/TheBirds Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation]].
27	* ''Mary Anne'' (1954)
28	* ''The Scapegoat'' (1957)
29	* ''The Breaking Point'' (1959) - short stories
30	* ''The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte'' (1960) - non-fiction
31	* ''The Glass-Blowers'' (1963)
32	* ''The Flight of the Falcon'' (1965)
33	* ''Vanishing Cornwall'' (1967) - non-fiction
34	* ''The House on the Strand'' (1969)
35	* ''Not After Midnight'' (1971) - short stories, published as ''Don't Look Now'' in the US and later the UK as a result of the [[Film/DontLookNow film adaptation]].
36	* ''Rule Britannia'' (1972)
37	[[/index]]

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