When she eventually left Menabilly she rented Kilmarth, the dower house to the Menabilly estate, and continued to write until health and old age prevented it.įor a long time Daphne du Maurier was described as a romantic novelist. She continued to live a privileged life, with staff to run her home and look after the children, and was proud to be the family breadwinner with the success of her writing. She lived at Menabilly, the Rashleigh owned manor house just outside Fowey, for about 25 years and wrote many of her books in a writing-hut in the grounds with a view over The Gribbin (pictured above).
In 1932 she married Frederick Browning, a military man, and they had three children. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931 and her success went from strength to strength. The family bought a holiday home in Cornwall in the 1920s and that house - Ferryside at Bodinnick - became Daphne's favourite haunt and a place of solitude that enabled her to work seriously on her early writing career. She was the second of three sisters and had a privileged upbringing in Hampstead. Her mother, Muriel Beaumont, was also an actress. Her grandfather was the brilliant artist and writer George du Maurier and her father was Gerald du Maurier, the most famous actor-manager and matinee idol of his day.
Dame Daphne du Maurier (Lady Browning) 1907 - 1989, DBE 1969, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literatureĭaphne was born into a creative and successful family.
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