Du Maurier
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Dame Daphne Lady Browning, 1907–1989, English novelist.
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her grandfather George Louis Palmella Busson 1834–96, English illustrator and novelist.
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her father Sir Gerald (Hubert Edward Busson) 1873–1934, English actor and theatrical manager.
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Dame Daphne. 1907–89, English novelist; author of Rebecca (1938) and My Cousin Rachel (1951)
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her grandfather, George Louis Palmella Busson ('pæmɛlə ˈbjuːs ə n) 1834-96, British novelist and illustrator; author Trilby (1894)
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his son, Sir Gerald ( Hubert Edward ). 1873–1934, British actor-manager: father of Daphne Du Maurier
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Du Maurier wrote “The Birds” in 1952, but the story differs strikingly from Hitchcock’s 1963 treatment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Du Maurier sets her tale in December, in agricultural Cornwall, one of the most desolate and isolated counties of England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Lloyd said he believed they were written by Du Maurier when she was in her 20s.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2019
Du Maurier was under no illusions as to the bleakness of what she had written.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
At one point in his diary he notes that he was reading Trilby, the 1894 best seller by George Du Maurier about a young singer, Trilby O’Farrell, and her possession by the mesmerist Svengali.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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