£5 from every purchase of this T-shirt is donated to the Women’s Prize Trust, helping them to empower women to raise their voice and own their story. She wanted the novels to continue to haunt us beyond their endings.' She did not want to put her readers' minds at rest. Her grandfather was George du Maurier, a writer and cartoonist. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. As the obituarist Kate Kellaway put it: 'Du Maurier was a mistress of calculated irresolution. Meine Cousine Rachel, Kapitel 1 & Meine Cousine Rachel, Kapitel 2.1 - Meine Cousine Rachel. Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, 1 DBE ( / du mrie / 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. She was the daughter of theatre professionals and the granddaughter of successful novelist George du Maurier (George was also the grandfather of the Davies children, who inspired Peter Pan). Many of her works were adapted for film and television, such as Alfred HItchcock’s The Birds and the 1973 film Don’t Look Now. Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was destined for an artistic life.

T-shirts will dispatch in mid-late September.Īs part of their mission to champion women writers on a global stage, we’re launching a special collaboration with the Women’s Prize Trust: five T-shirts emblazoned with the names of celebrated female authors who have changed the world: Maya Angelou, Nora Ephron, Daphne du Maurier, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf.ĭaphne du Maurier was an English author, biographer and playwright best known for her novels My Cousin Rachel and the psychological thriller Rebecca, which still sells around 4,000 copies a month 80 years after its publication. This item is currently available for pre-order only. You may call it pride, or tenacity, call it what you will. © Copyright Wikipédia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.A woman of feeling does not easily give way.

Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter. Her grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. Her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer William Comyns Beaumont. Daphne du Maurier was born in London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont. © Copyright Wikipédia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0.