Manderley Forever: A Biography Of Daphne Du Maurier, Tatiana De Rosnay, c 2015

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Preface:

biographer introduced to du Maurier when she read Rebecca at age 11
transfixed from the first mythical sentence: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

Part One
London, 1907 - 1925

Mayfair, City of Westminster, London
November 2013

A very interesting way of writing a biography.

That address: where Daphne was born, May 13, 1907

Cannon Hall, Hampstead, London
November, 2013

Gerald lived here from 1916 until his death in 1934

Part Two
France, 1925

Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
November 2013

Finishing school for Daphne
1926

Part Three
Cornwall, 1926
Ferryside

Fowey, Cornwall
November 2013

where Daphne wrote her first novel, age 22
today, her son lives there
extreme southwest coast of England
four hours by train from London
a maritime region
this may be the best chapter

Part Four
Cornwall, 1943
Menabilly

Fowey, Cornwall
November, 2013

Menabilly. See google maps.
owned by the Rashleigh family

summer, 1943: Daphne is 36 years old

Part Five
Cornwall, 1969
Kilmarth

Kilmarth, Par
November, 2013

Daphne's last house
west of Menabilly, atop the cliff that overlooks the little port of Polkeerris and the bay of Par, by the side of the road leading to hte village of Twyardreath (pronounced tower-dreth)
its name is Kilmarth, Cornish for "horses' ridge" or "Mark's retreat."
a manor house in gray slate, handsome and austere, protected by a high gate

one of Daphne's grandchildren lives there; mistress of the Kilmarth

July, 1969 for Daphne
leaving Menabilly
four years since Tommy died, on March 14, 1965; she held on those four years, four years of the Rashleighs' prevaricating

spring of 1989, aged 81
Tuesday, April 18, 1989