Daphne du Maurier — A Profile of the Author of Rebecca

“ Daphne du Maurier is one of those writers who seem to soak herself into the very heart of what she is writing about…” Denys Val Baker

Daphne du Maurier. Image: The Guardian

Daphne was not Cornish, but lived in the county for the best part of sixty years, where she wrote more than forty novels, works of non-fiction, plays, screenplays, such as Jamaica Inn (1936), Frenchman’s Creek (1941), My Cousin Rachel…