My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier, is the story of a young Englishman named Philip who falls hopelessly in love with his cousin’s widow, Rachel. However, since Philip has very little experience with women and suspects Rachel may have poisoned his cousin, the one-sided love affair is doomed. Du Maurier’s novel is both a gothic romance and a mystery that tackles the themes of good and evil, the nature of women, the effects of love, and how money impacts a person’s independence.
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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Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier