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| Name: |
Daphne du Maurier | | Variant Name: |
Browning, Lady | | Birth Date: |
May 13, 1907 | | Death Date: |
April 19, 1989 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Place of Death: |
Par, Cornwall, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Daphne du Maurier
6475 words, approx. 21.6 pages
 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 the most popular novelists in the English-speaking worl... summary from source:
 Biography of Daphne du Maurier
4055 words, approx. 13.5 pages
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 mystery and superstition, the home of legendary figures s... summary from source:
 Biography of Daphne du Maurier
1757 words, approx. 5.9 pages
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 those that spun tales of mystery, suspense, and drama, inc...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Jamaica Inn Information
998 words, approx. 3 pages
 Jamaica Inn is a novel by the Cornish writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, by Alfred Hitchcock. It is an eerie period piece set in Cornwall in 1820; the real Jamaica Inn still exists...
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Sean O'faolain
102 words, approx. 1 pages
Jamaica Inn [makes] one realise how high the standard of entertainment has become in the modern novel. I do not believe R.L.S. [Robert Louis Stevenson] would have been ashamed to have written Jamaica Inn, with its smugglers, wreckers, wild moors, storms, its sinister inn, misplaced confidences, pretty and gallant heroine, and romantic love story…. There is here all the melodrama that one can desire—and let nobody say "It is an old fashion." The old fashion was good. (p. 144)
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Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier | |
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