"Angela du Maurier Angela du Maurier (1 March 1904 – 5 February 2002) was an English novelist who also wrote two volumes of autobiography, ""It's Only the Sister"" (1951) and ""Old Maids Remember"". She was the sister of Daphne du Maurier. The eldest of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont), she was born in St Pancras, London. Her grandfather was the author and ""Punch"" cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel ""Trilby"". Although three years older than her better known"
"Guy du Maurier, and Arthur's brother Compton Llewelyn Davies. Mary Hodgson continued to care for them, until increasing friction with Barrie and a confrontation with Jack's new wife led to her resignation when the boys were in their teens and twenties. Barrie, whose success as a novelist and playwright had made him wealthy, provided housing, education, and financial support for them until they were independent. Upon the United Kingdom's entry into World War I, Jack was already in the Royal Navy, and George and Peter volunteered to serve as officers in the British Army. George was killed in action in"
"Guy du Maurier as well as her mother, Emma, as guardians to her sons. Hodgson continued to serve as nurse and surrogate mother for him and his brothers, with Barrie taking on the duties of the main guardian and supporting them financially. Davies, like his brothers (apart from Jack), attended Eton College. Davies volunteered along with his brother George to serve in World War I, and received a commission as an officer. He was a signal officer in France and spent time in the trenches; at one point he was hospitalized with impetigo. He ultimately won the Military Cross, but"
"of the ""nation's best-loved novel"" on the BBC's 2003 survey The Big Read. Other significant works include ""The Scapegoat"", ""The House on the Strand"", and ""The King's General"". The last is set in the middle of the first and second English Civil Wars, written from the Royalist perspective of Du Maurier's adopted Cornwall. Several of Du Maurier's other novels have also been adapted for the screen, including ""Jamaica Inn"", ""Frenchman's Creek"", ""Hungry Hill"", and ""My Cousin Rachel"". The Hitchcock film ""The Birds"" (1963) is based on a treatment of one of her short stories, as is the film ""Don't Look"
"Guy du Maurier Guy Louis Busson du Maurier DSO (18 May 1865, London, England – 9 Mar 1915, Kemmel, Flanders, Belgium) was an English army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and the actor Gerald du Maurier. He was educated at Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in 1885 became an officer in the Royal Fusiliers. He served in the Second Boer War, where he commanded a mounted infantry regiment, earning the Distinguished Service Order in 1902. He achieved notoriety in 1909 as the author"
"Comte d'Artagnan, well-known through his fictionalized depiction in Alexandre Dumas's ""The Three Musketeers"" and its sequels. In 1966, the book was adapted into a film titled ""Angélique et le Roy"". After many trials, Angelique finally takes her place in Louis XIV's court alongside her new husband, who is the Marshal of France, Philippe de Plessis du Bellière. She has many problems with her new husband, who despises her for having blackmailed him into marriage. Eventually, she starts loving him (and vice versa) but he gets killed in the King's war at the Low Countries. She earns the undivided attention of"
"her life in Cornwall, where most of her works are set. As her fame increased, she became more reclusive. Her parents were the actor/manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and stage actress Muriel Beaumont, and her grandfather was the cartoonist and writer George du Maurier. Daphne du Maurier was born in London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont. Her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer William Comyns Beaumont. Her grandfather was author and ""Punch"" cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel"
"Gibson, a Jewish woman, with whom he is so happy that Martia acknowledges her mistake. Martia is incarnated in the form of their daughter, and when the child dies, her spirit returns to Mars, and Barty also passes away. The Martian (du Maurier novel) The Martian, by George du Maurier, published in 1898 is a 471-page, largely autobiographical novel, the author's third. It describes the life of Barty Josselin as told by his close friend Robert Maurice, starting from their school days in Paris in the 1850s. Written in long descriptive passages with very little dialogue and many digressions, the"
"Daphne du Maurier Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as ""moody and resonant"" with overtones of the paranormal. Her bestselling works were not at first taken seriously by critics, but have since earned an enduring reputation for narrative craft. Many have been successfully adapted into films, including the novels ""Rebecca"", ""My Cousin Rachel"", and ""Jamaica Inn"", and the short stories ""The Birds"" and ""Don't Look Now/Not After Midnight"". Du Maurier spent much of"
"The Scapegoat (novel) The Scapegoat is a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier. In 1959, it was made into a film of the same name, starring Sir Alec Guinness. It was also the basis of a film broadcast in 2012 starring Matthew Rhys and written and directed by Charles Sturridge. The plot concerns an Englishman who meets his double, a French aristocrat, while visiting France, and is forced into changing places with him. The Englishman is a single, rather lonely academic, and he finds himself caught up in all the intrigues and passions of his double's complex family. John, an"
"the death of Louis XVI. Set in Paris during the Reign of Terror, the novel follows the adventures of a brave young man named Maurice Lindey who unwittingly implicates himself in a Royalist plot to rescue Marie Antoinette from prison. Maurice is devoted to the Republican cause, but his infatuation with a beautiful young woman leads him into the service of the mysterious Knight of Maison-Rouge, the mastermind behind the plot. Alexandre Dumas based events in the novel on ""the affair of the carnation"", an attempt by the Marquis Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville to communicate with Marie Antoinette by hiding"
"Frenchman's Creek (novel) Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Charles II, it tells the story of a love affair between an impulsive English lady, Dona, Lady St. Columb, and a French pirate, Jean-Benoit Aubéry. Dona, Lady St. Columb, makes a sudden visit with her children to Navron, her husband's remote estate in Cornwall, in a fit of disgust with her shallow life in London court society. There she finds that the property, unoccupied for several years, is being used as a base by a notorious French pirate who"
"novel ""Mary Anne"" (1954) is a fictionalised account of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776–1852), who, from 1803–08, was mistress of Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827). He was the ""Grand Old Duke of York"" of the nursery rhyme, a son of King George III, and brother of King George IV and King William IV. The central character of her last novel, ""Rule Britannia"", is an aging actress, thought to be based on Gladys Cooper (to whom it is dedicated). Du Maurier's short stories are darker: ""The Birds"", ""Don't Look Now"", ""The Apple Tree"", and ""The"
"novel's reviews did not praise this aspect, which disappointed Du Maurier. The inspiration for the novel came from a discovery by William Rashleigh of a skeleton when involved in renovation work on the house. The skeleton was thought to belong to a Cavalier of the Civil War because of its clothing. The novel is set at the time of the English Civil War. A middle-aged Honor Harris narrates the story of her youth, from the age of ten, when living with her brother Robin. The narrative begins when Kit, Honor's oldest brother, brings home his new bride, Gartred. After only"
"the novel takes place. My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1951. Like the earlier ""Rebecca"", it is a mystery-romance, set primarily on a large estate in Cornwall. The story has its origins in a portrait of Rachel Carew at Antony House in Cornwall, which du Maurier saw and took as inspiration. Ambrose Ashley is the owner of a large country estate on the Cornish coast and has been guardian to his orphaned cousin Philip since he was three years old. On Sundays, Philip's godfather, Nick Kendall, and his daughter"
"if Jean tries to undo what John did. Lamenting that his feelings of failure led to a doomed love, John leaves and resolves to follow his original path to the Abbey de la Grande Trappe. The Scapegoat (novel) The Scapegoat is a 1957 novel by Daphne du Maurier. In 1959, it was made into a film of the same name, starring Sir Alec Guinness. It was also the basis of a film broadcast in 2012 starring Matthew Rhys and written and directed by Charles Sturridge. The plot concerns an Englishman who meets his double, a French aristocrat, while visiting France,"
"Hungry Hill (novel) Hungry Hill is a novel by prolific British author Daphne du Maurier, published in 1943. It was her seventh novel. There have been 33 editions of the book printed. This family saga is based on the history of the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley. The family resembles the Puxleys who owned mines in Allihies, a parish in County Cork. The story spans the century from 1820 to 1920 following five male characters from a family of Anglo-Irish landowners, the Brodricks, who live in a castle called Clonmere. It is divided into five sub-books"
"a trope the author deflects by attributing it to the protagonist and forcing the reader to experience the body through the view of the narrator. Another trope of gothic fiction which Du Maurier makes use of is the secret room. Ever in the mind of the author is the secret room in which the Cavalier who inspired the novel was found. The secret passage to the summer house is also a frequent motif, leading to the room which Honor discovers, in which local Royalists are hiding silver to support the king's cause, a fact she disguises when Menabilly is occupied."
"du Maurier based many novels on this part of Cornwall, including ""Frenchman's Creek"". The Lizard was featured on the BBC television programme ""Seven Natural Wonders"" as one of the wonders of the South West, and on the BBC series ""Coast"". In James Clavell's novel ""Shōgun"", ship's pilot Vasco Rodrigues challenges John Blackthorne to recite the latitude of the Lizard to verify that Blackthorne is a fellow seaman. The Jennifer McQuiston 2015 novel ""The Spinster's Guide to Scandalous Behavior"" is set primarily in the fictional village Lizard Bay on the Lizard in the mid-nineteenth century. In the television adaptation of ""Horatio"
"France) during World War II. The plot concerns two characters, Pierre Dumaine and Ève Charlier. They are predestined to be soulmates, but this destiny is prevented by their premature violent deaths, and they do not meet until passing into the afterlife. Ève and Pierre have never met each other in their respective lives. At the beginning of the book, Ève is very sick, and unknown to her, her husband André is poisoning her in order to marry her sister Lucette and keep the dowry. Pierre on the other hand is planning a revolution, but is killed by his friend Lucien."
"off, pursued by the British Royal Navy. After a naval engagement the British ship is sunk and they escape. Georges: Georges is the protagonist of the novel. He is a light-skinned mulatto who is easily mistaken as white. Georges (novel) Georges is a short novel by Alexandre Dumas, père set on Isle de France (Mauritius), from 1810 to 1824. This novel is of particular interest to scholars because Dumas reused many of the ideas and plot devices later in ""The Count of Monte Cristo"", and because race and racism are at the center of this novel, and this was a"
"Svengali Svengali () is a fictional character in George du Maurier's 1895 novel ""Trilby"". Svengali is a man who seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby, a young Irish girl and makes her a famous singer. The word ""svengali"" has come to refer to a person who, with evil intent, dominates, manipulates and controls a creative person such as a singer or an actor. In court, a ""Svengali defence"" is a legal tactic that purports the defendant to be a pawn in the scheme of a greater and more influential, criminal mastermind. In the novel, Svengali transforms Trilby into a great singer"
"his destiny of fighting evil forces and preserving Denmark and France. The magical forces involved have no consideration for the hero's love life, leaving him stranded away from his beloved Alianora. Desperately wanting to return to the other world, he seeks clues in old books of magic. His enduring affinity with the medieval world in which he met her is expressed by a decision to convert to Catholicism. The novel is a pastiche of interwoven stories. It draws on the corpus of Northern European legends, including Ogier the Dane, the Matter of France, Arthurian romance, Oberon (Duke Alfric in the"
"novel. Characters in the novel portrayed as dominantly masculine, including Richard, suggest connections between being foreign and homosexual. Neither of these prejudices of Richard's are endorsed by Honor or the novel. ""The King's General"" was written at the end of the Second World War, and reflects on the influence of war on family and romance. Honor's incapacity in the novel – represented by the nature of her injuries leaving her housebound – suggests an ambiguous message of limited freedom for women in wartime. The novel is dedicated to Du Maurier's husband, 'also a general', suggesting some biographical connection between him"
"in action in Flanders in 1915. J. M. Barrie wrote to Guy's nephew George Llewelyn Davies to inform him of the death; by the time Barrie received his response, George himself had been killed. Guy du Maurier Guy Louis Busson du Maurier DSO (18 May 1865, London, England – 9 Mar 1915, Kemmel, Flanders, Belgium) was an English army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and the actor Gerald du Maurier. He was educated at Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in 1885 became an"
"The King's General The King's General is a novel, published in 1946, by English author and playwright Daphne du Maurier. It was the first novel Du Maurier wrote while living at Menabilly, the setting for an earlier novel ""Rebecca"", where it is called 'Manderley'. The writing of the novel was accompanied by prolific research, in which Du Maurier was assisted by Oenone Rashleigh and historian A. L. Rowse, to ensure the historical accuracy of her presentation of the Devon/Cornwall setting at the time of the Civil War. The historical precision and accuracy made it popular among local people, but the"
"and Richard. From this reading, Du Maurier is Honor, developing her own independence in the restrictions of her circumstance, while her husband was at war. The novel was adapted as a radio drama for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 1992. It was adapted by Micheline Wandor and directed by Cherry Cookson. Actors included Cathryn Harrison as Honor, Roger Allam as Richard, and Carolyn Pickles and Philip Sully. In 2014 Nina Companeez released a TV movie about Daphne du Maurier's novel called ""Le général du roi"". The plot is transposed in France, during the War in the Vendée. The King's"
"Vautrin Vautrin is a character from the novels of French writer Honoré de Balzac in the La Comédie humaine series. His real name is Jacques Collin . He appears in the novels ""Le Père Goriot"" (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in ""Illusions perdues"" (Lost illusions, 1837–43) and ""Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes"" (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–44), the sequel of ""Illusions perdues"", under the name of ""Abbé Carlos Herrera"". In prison, he got the nickname ""Trompe-la-Mort"" (""Dodgedeath"" or ""Cheats-Death""), because he managed to avoid the death sentence repeatedly. By the time the ""Comédie humaine"" series begins,"
"Daphne du Maurier, Henry James, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens. As children, Roderick and Caroline changed the hands of a broken clock to twenty minutes to nine, thinking it amusing to reflect the stopped clocks of Miss Havisham's house from Dickens' ""Great Expectations"". Like the narrator of du Maurier's ""Rebecca"", Faraday has no first name; the man overcome by the house in Poe's ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" is also named Roderick. Peter Cannon in ""Publishers Weekly"" writes that the novel is evocative of Henry James' ""The Turn of the Screw"" and Shirley Jackson's ""The Haunting of Hill"
"been influenced by the ""explosive rebel"" named Georges in the play ""Marie, or, Slavery in the United States"" by Gustave de Beaumont, which had come out two years earlier. Georges was the interracial title character of an 1843 novel by Alexandre Dumas, who was a friend and patron of Séjour, with another character named Laïza. In English-language literature by African Americans, the figure of the mulatto is almost always a victimized female. Denied legitimate expressions of manhood, Georges exacts a horrific revenge that in the end consumes him. African Americans writing in French were far more explicit about sexuality than"
"ineffectual suitor the Comte de Savignac (Butterworth). Maurice custom-tailors clothing for de Varèze on credit, but the Vicomte's unpaid tailoring bills become intolerable, so Maurice travels to de Savignac's castle to collect the money owed to him. On the way, he has a confrontation with Princesse Jeanette. He immediately professes his love for her, but she haughtily rejects him. When Maurice arrives at the castle, Gilbert introduces him as ""Baron Courtelin"" in order to hide the truth from the Comte. Maurice is fearful of this scheme at first, but changes his mind when he sees Jeanette. While staying at the"
"moor, she comes across Jem, leading a cart with all of his possessions, headed in the opposite direction of Helford. After some discussion, Mary decides to abandon her plans to return to Helford to go with Jem. The characters presented throughout the novel include (in order of introduction): Jamaica Inn (novel) Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called ""Jamaica Inn"", directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1820. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay"
"which she had spun her popular novel ""Jamaica Inn"", which was adapted into a melodramatic film of the same name made by Alfred Hitchcock. Before living in the inn, she had resided in Fowey estuary, a house in Bodinnick and subsequently in Menabilly. She described the nocturnal activities of a smuggling ring based at the now celebrated inn, ""portraying a hidden world as a place of tense excitement and claustrophobia of real peril and thrill."" It should be noted though that in Du Maurier's novel, the Jamaica Inn is not functioning as an inn with many guests as it did"