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Gerald du Maurier, Daphne’s father, 2 years after his marriage, at the height of his fame.
 
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Her mother, Muriel, shortly before she gave up acting on the birth of her third daughter in 1911.
 
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The du Maurier family in the garden of Cannon Hall, Hampstead. Angela and Jeanne sit close to their mother, while Daphne separates herself and grabs her own chair.
 
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Mlle Fernande (‘Ferdy’) Yvon, who taught Daphne at her French finishing school and became an intimate and influential friend.
 
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The three du Maurier sisters in the conservatory. Daphne again sits slightly apart, scowling at the camera.
 
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Frederick Browning (known as Tommy to his family) with his sister Grace and mother Nancy.
 
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Geoffrey Millar, Daphne’s actor cousin, with whom she had a mild but significant adolescent flirtation.
 
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Daphne in 1929, when she was having an affair with film director Carol Reed, and writing her first novel, The Loving Spirit.
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Daphne rowing herself from Fowey to Ferryside, the house at Bodinnick which the du Mauriers bought in 1926.
 
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Maureen Luschwitz (later Baker-Munton) in 1947.
 
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Tommy Browning, the immaculate Grenadier Guards officer with whom Daphne fell in love in 1932, and married 3 months later.
 
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Daphne holds her first baby, Tessa, in 1933, betraying a certain nervousness in handling her.
 
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Oenone Rashleigh, daughter of the heir to Menabilly with whom Daphne became friendly; Foy Quiller-Couch, Daphne’s closest friend in Cornwall; Morwenna Rashleigh; Betty Symondson, Foy’s cousin; Anne Hanson; Jenny Porter; Jennifer Rashleigh.
 
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Menabilly, the house Daphne rented for twenty-five years and restored, which was the inspiration for several of her novels.
 
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Daphne with her three children, Kits, Flavia and Tessa, c. 1943
 
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Daphne teaching her daughters (Flavia, centre, and Tessa) in the nursery at Menabilly during the war. Kits is on the rocking horse.
 
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In the afternoons, when she’d finished her morning’s writing, Daphne liked to take her children, Kits, Flavia and Tessa, for walks through the Menabilly woods.
 
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Ellen Doubleday (wife of Daphne’s American publisher) who was the inspiration for September Tide and My Cousin Rachel.
 
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Daphne c. 1949, working in the garden hut she had had erected in the grounds of Menabilly. (Note the dictionary, of which she was in frequent need.)
 
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Gertrude Lawrence, whose talent for enjoyment endeared her to Daphne – she relaxed with her as she did with no one else.
 
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Daphne at a Doubleday party in America, entering into the spirit of things.
 
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Daphne with Frank Price, who worked for Doubleday, and with whom she had a strange friendship.
 
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Daphne looking apprehensive on board Jeanne d’Arc in 1959 with her husband who tended to be dictatorial when sailing.
 
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Daphne and Tommy walking down the lawn at Menabilly.
 
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Kits at the wheel of his first car with his mother (who in 1939 gave up driving for almost 30 years).
 
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Daphne with Tessa on her left and Flavia.
 
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Olive White, Miss Eire 1961, who married Kits Browning (inset with her a few years later) in 1964.
 
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Daphne playing cricket with her grandson Rupert outside Menabilly. As a child she had loved to play, when she pretended to be ‘Eric Avon’.
 
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Daphne in 1946, walking up from Pridmouth beach with her children.
 
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The same scene, 30 years on, with Kits and his family.
 
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Daphne on the rocks below Kilmarth in the ’70s, wearing the clothes and cap which became almost a uniform.
 
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Daphne 3 years before her death, suddenly fragile and wistful.