Daphne du Maurier put a 50 year embargo on her most private journals and notebooks, keeping them secret until after her death Her dark novels allowed generations of readers to fall in love with ...

Daphne du Maurier may have been born in London, but the British author lost her heart to Cornwall’s rugged beauty and haunting atmosphere. This deep and lifelong connection led her to draw heavily on ...

FOWEY, ENGLAND—It is a famed beginning to a classic novel: “Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and, for a while, I could not ...

Rebecca’s melancholic opening line establishes the setting, locale, and atmosphere of the gothic classic, which was published in 1938 and has never been out of print. Written by Daphne du Maurier and ...

A pub in Cornwall, immortalised in a novel by Daphne du Maurier, has gone on sale with an asking price of £2m. Jamaica Inn, near Bodmin, was also once owned by the thriller writer Alistair MacLean.

An historic pub in Cornwall is going up for sale by auction this month. The Old Ferry Inn, at Bodinnick, has nine letting rooms overlooking the Fowey Estuary. It is next door to the former du Maurier ...

The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper ...