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