Fowey Cornwall Daphne Du Maurier

The du maurier statue fowey cornwall the birds is a great achievement but her towering legacy to endless generations will be rebecca and as long as people read they will follow mrs.

Fowey cornwall daphne du maurier. Fowey festival 25 sept 3 oct 2020. She grew up in london with her sisters angela and jeanne and was educated at home by her governess. Danvers and the second mrs. The ultimate online guide to fowey and the beautiful fowey estuary in south cornwall.

Her novels rebecca and jamaica inn set in cornwall were adapted for film and directed by alfred hitchcock. Daphne du maurier the author of rebecca and frenchman s creek one imagines once sat at an upstairs window of readymoney cottage in fowey and sought inspiration as she gazed across the water. Following the postponement of this year s spring festival to the autumn due to the coronavirus pandemic we are delighted to announce that many of the speakers from the original may dates are able to reschedule their diaries to the autumn. Sitting at the mouth of an estuary fowey is daphne du maurier s hometown and has attracted her fans for years.

Daphne du maurier was born in london the middle of three daughters of prominent actor manager sir gerald du maurier and actress muriel beaumont. Even daphne s husband major frederick browning was drawn to the area after reading. In total she wrote 15 novels 12 non fiction books 3 plays and a number of collections of short stories. Daphne du maurier fowey cornwall born on the 13th may 1907 daphne du maurier was the second daughter of sir gerald du maurier and the grand daughter of george du maurier.

The du maurier family had holidayed in cornwall throughout daphne s childhood and in 1926 her parents sir gerald and lady muriel du maurier bought ferryside a house on the bodinnick side of the river fowey on the south coast of cornwall. One of the best ways to discover daphne du maurier s fowey is by foot. Strike out along the south west coast path and follow the scenic route towards gribben head to pass the coves of readymoney and polridmouth where du maurier lived in point neptune and menabilly respectively. As well as fowey itself we cover the villages of polruan bodinnick and lanteglos to the east of the river golant lostwithiel lerryn and st winnow higher up the estuary and tywardreath par polkerris and menabilly to the west.