Daphne Du Maurier - (1907 - 1989)
English novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and editor.
Regarded by many critics as a natural storyteller who made effective use of melodrama, du Maurier is best...
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In a writing career that spanned over four decades and brought her international renown, Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) published in a number of different genres. Among her most popular works were thos...
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When Daphne du Maurier died at age 81 in 1989 at her home in her beloved Cornwall, England, obituary writers around the world sharpened their pencils. A writer in the London Times called her "one of t...
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Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for forty years, twenty-five of them in Menabilly, a seventeenth-century house that she described as the most beautiful she had ever seen. Cornwall, a region of mys...
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In the following review of Kiss Me Again, Stranger, Barkham lauds du Maurier's craftsmanship as a mystery writer.
In her short stories, as in her novels, Daphne du Maurier is a firm believer in...
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In the following review, Berkman praises Kiss Me Again, Stranger for its insightful representation of painful and frightening human experiences.
Daphne du Maurier is a specialist in horror. Her creati...
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An English novelist and critic, Bradbury is best known as the author of such satiric novels as Eating People Is Wrong (1959) and Stepping Westward (1965). In the following review of The Breaking Point...
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In the following review of The Breaking Point, Hurley commends du Maurier's talent as a suspense and horror writer, noting particularly her ability to create realistic settings and believable c...
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Sullivan is an American novelist and critic. In the following negative review of The Breaking Point, he perceives du Maurier's approach to human interactions as shallow and calculated.
The pros...
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A Canadian novelist and nonfiction writer, Millar is a critically acclaimed author of several mystery and suspense novels. In the following mixed review of Don't Look Now, she suggests that whi...
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Kelly is an American critic and educator. In the following excerpt from his book-length biographical and critical study of du Maurier, he concludes that her characters often remain undefined and secon...
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Forster is an English novelist, biographer, and critic. In the following excerpt from her authorized biography of du Maurier, she examines the stories collected in The Apple Tree.
[In the winter of 19...
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Critical Essay by Basil Davenport
So Cinderella married the prince, and then her story began. Cinderella was hardly more than a school-girl, and the overworked companion of a snobbish woman of wealth;...
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Critical Essay by Pat Rogers
[Francis Bacon] seems an odd choice for Daphne du Maurier, with her fine wayward imagination and her gothic suggestiveness. Few Elizabethans had less of the mantic about t...
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Critical Essay by E. S. Turner
Growing Pains is about the delights and irresponsibilities of adolescence, the sowing of mild oats…. Writers of best-selling fiction tend to have peculiar bees in...
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Critical Essay by Doris Grumbach
[Daphne du Maurier] has chosen to use whole portions of her girlhood diaries [in "Myself When Young"], verbatim, to gird her memory. The result is a gent...
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Daphne Du Maurier - (1907 - 1989)
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
