Articles / Non-Fiction Works

Articles / Non-Fiction Works

Gerald (London, Gollancz) - 1934

Published within six months of her father's death, this frank biography was considered to be shocking to his many fans.

The du Mauriers (London, Gollancz) - 1937

A biography of the du Maurier family from 1810 to 1936.

The Young George du Maurier (London, Peter Davies) - 1951

A volume of letters 1860 - 1870 with some of George's sketches.

Mary Anne (London, Gollancz) - 1954

In Mary Anne Daphne du Maurier reconstructs as nearly as possible the life of her Great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke, who lived, for a year or two of splendour, 'under the protection' of H.R.H. the Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of the Army during the Napoleonic wars. From all the available evidence the writer introduces us to a cynical world, vibrant with vice, political intrigue, scurrilous pamphlets, and the sale of favours and promotions, whereby the royal mistress tried to augment her niggardly allowance.

History might have applauded Mrs Clarke had she been satisfied with that supreme act of revenge on a faithless lover - the public investigation in the House of Commons into his conduct of the War Office. But the restless ambition of this gay and unscrupulous figure at length took her to prison for an indefensible libel.

Here, as in The King's General, the author blends fact and fiction, and the clipped and nervous style in which she recounts the story is admirably suited to its content.

The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte (London, Gollancz) - 1960

A drunken reprobate dying at thirty-one from the result of his own excesses? Modern eyes can judge Branwell Bronte more gently than his own despairing family. Excluded out of misguided kindness from his sister's success, in the face of the world's censure and his own shame, Branwell returned to his scribbled childhood world of wickedness and Gothic adventure -'the infernal world' where he truly belonged.

The Glass-blowers (London, Gollancz) - 1963

'If you marry into glass you enter a closed world' ...So Pierre Labbe warned his daughter in 1747. But tall, blonde Magdaleine was not daunted. To her the tight traditions of the glass-blowers made a world she could rule over - and rule she did. But for her children that world would be different. This is Daphne du Maurier's warm, human saga of a family of craftsmen in eighteenth-century France - with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out.

Vanishing Cornwall (London, Gollancz) - 1967

Beautiful, mysterious, lapped by the sea, Cornwall exerts a potent spell on all who visit it.
An ancient land full of legend and history, Cornwall has nurtured a proud and fiercely independent people - fishermen, boat-builders, tin-miners, china-clay workers - and become a refuge to the artists, writers and sculpters who have drawn inspiration from its wild grandeur and clear light.
Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life and used her intimate knowledge of the county in her acclaimed novels Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek and Jamaica Inn. Here, with her son, the photographer Christian Browning, she has chronicled all aspects of this strange and aloof part of England, fusing history, anecdote and travelogue in a forceful plea for Cornwall's preservation.

Golden Lads (London, Gollancz) - 1975

The story of Anthony and Francis Bacon linked to Queen Elizabeth I through their friendship with the Earl of Essex.

The Winding Stairs (London, Gollancz) - 1976

The life and times of Francis Bacon.

Growing Pains - the Shaping of a Writer (London, Gollancz) - 1977

Daphne's autobiography in which she writes of her early life from when she was a very young child, up until she published her first novel. Based on her personal diaries during the period 1920 to 1932. Also published as Myself When Young - the Shaping of a Writer.

Myself When Young - the Shaping of a Writer (LondonGollancz) - 1977

Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult relationship with her father; her education in Paris; early love affairs; her antipathy towards London life and the theatre; her intense love for Cornwall and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting portrait is of a captivating and complex character. Also published as Growing Pains - the Shaping of a Writer

The Rebecca Notebooks (London, Gollancz) - 1981

Enchanted Cornwall (London, Penguin) - 1989

'Enchanted Cornwall is more than a travelogue of memorable haunts. It tries to give an idea of the way in which Cornwall has communicated with me, and I with Cornwall, for here I found myself both as a writer and as a person.'

This is Daphne du Maurier's personal memoir, the story of how enchanted Cornwall formed her as a writer - how the spirit of Cornwall awakened in her a response so imaginative that it transformed ordinary perception into the inspired perception of a master story-teller.

Enchanted, mysterious, unexplored, this is Cornwall as seen through the eyes of the best-selling author of Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek and Jamaica Inn - tales which have passed into Cornish folk-lore.

In Frenchman's Creek, it is the Helford river and the primaeval enchantment of the creek itself which inspires her; in Jamaica Inn, the hard, diabolic 'beauty' of Bodmin Moor.

In Castle Dor, the landscape speaks to her of ancient Cornish myths and legends - an extraordinary perception, source of that sinister otherworldliness that held spellbound millions who read The Birds and Don't Look Now.

Completed shortly before Dame du Maurier's death in 1989, Enchanted Cornwall is the story of a magical relationship between a person and the spirit of a place. It will have special significance for millions who have enjoyed her books and want to know more about this very private writer.

But it is a book for everyone to enjoy: her readers, those who have enjoyed her films, and travellers to Cornwall - whether making their journey in person orjust in mind.

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