by Jane Dunn
15 Ibid.
16 Growing Pains, p. 31.
17 Only the Sister, p. 29.
18 Old Maids Remember, p. 18.
19 Ibid., p. 19.
20 Letter from DdM to ED, 13 Jan 1948. This and all subsequent letters to and from Ellen Doubleday are held in the Ellen McCarter Doubleday Papers, Manuscript Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
21 Growing Pains, p. 27.
22 Letter from DdM to ED, 13 Jan 1948.
23 Old Maids Remember, p. 9.
24 Growing Pains, p. 27.
25 Only the Sister, p. 25.
26 Daphne du Maurier, Vanishing Cornwall (London, 1986), p. 2.
27 Growing Pains, p. 34.
28 Letter from DdM to the Hon. Stephen Tennant, 26 Sep 1972, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
CHAPTER TWO: Lessons in Disguise
1 Growing Pains, p. 64.
2 Only the Sister, p. 34.
3 Ibid., p. 42.
4 Old Maids Remember, p. 2.
5 Roger Eckersley, The BBC and All That (London, 1946), p. 154.
6 The Listener, 9 Aug 1973, p. 179.
7 Old Maids Remember, p. 142.
8 The Parasites, p. 17.
9 Gerald, p. 123.
10 The Listener, 9 Aug 1973, p. 179.
11 Growing Pains, p. 69.
12 The Listener, 9 Aug 1973, p. 180.
13 Growing Pains, p. 67.
14 Gerald, p. 120.
15 Only the Sister, p. 43.
16 Judith Cook, Daphne: A Portrait of Daphne du Maurier (London, 1991), p. 270.
17 Daphne du Maurier, The Progress of Julius (London, 2004), p. 247.
18 Growing Pains, p. 67.
19 Only the Sister, p. 42.
20 Ibid., p. 41.
21 Gerald, p. 155.
22 Old Maids Remember, p. 163.
23 Only the Sister, p. 40.
24 Letter from DdM to Tod, DMM. This and all subsequent letters from Daphne du Maurier to Maud Waddell (‘Tod’) are held in the du Maurier Manuscript Collection, Heritage Collections, University of Exeter, reference EUL MS 207/2.
25 Argus, 28 May 1926, p. 16.
26 Ibid., p. 14.
27 Email to author from Waddell family.
28 Growing Pains, p. 59.
29 Only the Sister, p. 54.
30 Old Maids Remember, pp. 24–5.
31 Ibid., p. 10.
32 Oriel Malet, Letters from Menabilly (London, 1993), p. 11.
33 Old Maids Remember, p. 21.
34 Growing Pains, p. 63.
35 Ibid., p. 119.
36 Only the Sister, p. 180.
37 Old Maids Remember, p. 113.
38 Ibid., p. 8.
39 Letter from DdM to Tod, undated, DMM.
40 Edited Denys Val Baker, The Cornish Review, summer 1973, p. 7.
CHAPTER THREE: The Dancing Years
1 Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (London, 1930), p. 118.
2 Old Maids Remember, p. 51.
3 Only the Sister, p. 50.
4 Ibid., p. 51.
5 Ibid.
6 Letter from DdM to Tod, 23 Mar 1922, DMM.
7 Only the Sister, p. 52.
8 Letter from DdM to Tod, 23 Mar 1922, DMM.
9 Only the Sister, p. 54.
10 Roland Pertwee, Master of None (London, 1940), pp. 205–06.
11 Ibid., p. 206.
12 Only the Sister, p. 55.
13 Ibid.
14 Pertwee, Master of None, p. 206.
15 Letter from DdM to Tod, 23 Mar 1922, DMM.
16 Pertwee, Master of None, pp. 205–06.
17 Ibid., p. 216.
18 Letter from DdM to Tod [Apr 1922], DMM.
19 Pertwee, Master of None, p. 219.
20 Ibid., p. 222.
21 Letter from DdM to Tod, 11 Feb 1924, DMM.
22 Growing Pains, p. 65.
23 Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, 5 Jan 1923, CB.
24 Old Maids Remember, p. 157.
25 Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, 17 Jan 1923.
26 Undated early letter from DdM to Tod, 1920s, DMM.
27 Letter from DdM to Tod, 8 Aug 1923, DMM.
28 Ibid., 11 Feb 1924.
29 Only the Sister, p. 46.
30 Old Maids Remember, p. 43.
31 Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (London, 1938), p. 228.
32 Letter from DdM to Tod, 4 Feb 1924, DMM.
33 Ibid., Friday 2 [Jan] 1925.
34 Growing Pains, p. 72.
35 James Harding, Gerald du Maurier (London, 1989), p. 160.
36 Only the Sister, p. 75.
37 Letter from DdM to Tod, Friday 2 [Jan] 1925, DMM.
38 Only the Sister, p. 75.
39 Growing Pains, p. 72.
40 Only the Sister, p. 79.
41 Ibid., p. 82.
42 Only the Sister, p. 84.
43 Ibid., p. 95.
44 Pertwee, Master of None, p. 230.
CHAPTER FOUR: Love and Losing
1 Letter from DdM to Tod, Friday 2 [Jan] 1925, DMM.
2 Ibid., Sunday 8 [Feb] 1925.
3 Growing Pains, p. 74.
4 Ibid., p. 75.
5 Letter from DdM to Tod, 22 [Feb 1925], DMM.
6 Growing Pains, p. 75.
7 Only the Sister, p. 51.
8 Old Maids Remember, p. 55.
9 Letter from DdM to ED, 10 Dec 1947.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., 9 Sep 1948.
12 Old Maids Remember, p. 109.
13 Angela du Maurier, The Little Less (New York, 1941), p. 55.
14 Growing Pains, p. 131.
15 Old Maids Remember, p. 158.
16 Growing Pains, p. 78.
17 Letter from DdM to ED, 10 Dec 1947.
18 Growing Pains, p. 108.
19 Ibid., p. 79.
20 Only the Sister, p. 96.
21 Growing Pains, p. 80.
22 Ibid., p. 84.
23 Only the Sister, p. 97.
24 I am grateful to Ann Willmore of Bookends of Fowey who discovered this story and suggested the possible connection with Angela’s experience.
25 Naomi Jacob, Me: A Chronicle About Other People (Bath, 1933), p. 175.
26 Letter from DdM to Tod, 26 May 1926, DMM.
27 Old Maids Remember, p. 52.
28 Jacob, Me, p. 234.
29 Ibid., p. 175.
30 Only the Sister, p. 112.
31 James Agate, Red Letter Nights (London, 1944), p. 238.
32 Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier (London, 1993), p. 40.
33 Harding, Gerald, p. 138.
34 Letter from DdM to Tod, 26 May 1926, DMM.
35 Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 40.
36 Only the Sister, p. 121.
37 Ibid.
38 Growing Pains, p. 97.
39 Julius, p. 3.
CHAPTER FIVE: In Pursuit of Happiness
1 Growing Pains, p. 101.
2 Only the Sister, p. 85.
3 Author conversation with Betty Williams, 16 Jul 2011.
4 Only the Sister, p. 172.
5 Growing Pains, p. 108.
6 Only the Sister, p. 125.
7 Growing Pains, p. 105.
8 Ibid., p. 122.
9 Ibid., p. 106.
10 Ibid., p. 107.
11 Ibid., p. 103.
12 Ibid., p. 113.
13 Ibid., p. 114.
14 Ibid., p. 115.
15 Elizabeth Ladenson, Dirt for Art’s Sake: Books on Trial (Ithaca, 2007), p. 114.
16 Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (London, 2006), p. 284.
17 Ibid., p. 399.
18 Only the Sister, p. 140.
19 Growing Pains, p. 128.
20 Only the Sister, p. 141.
21 Ibid., p. 143.
22 Growing Pains, p. 131.
23 Camille Mauclair, De L’Amour Physique (Paris, 1912), p. 4.
24 Ibid., p. 78.<
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25 Letter from DdM to Tod, 30 Nov 1931, DMM.
26 Mauclair, De L’Amour Physique, p. 80.
27 Letter from DdM to Tod, 30 Nov 1931, DMM.
28 Growing Pains, p. 133.
29 Ibid., p. 135.
30 Julius, p. 271.
31 Letter from DdM to Tessa Browning, 4 Dec 1951, DMM, ref. EUL MS 207/2.
32 Growing Pains, pp. 135–36.
33 Julius, p. 237.
34 Letter from DdM to Tessa Browning, 4 Dec 1951, DMM.
35 Only the Sister, p. 147.
36 Ibid., p. 135.
37 Old Maids Remember, p. 109.
38 Julius, p. 271.
39 Only the Sister, p. 147.
40 Old Maids Remember, pp. 109–10.
41 Angela du Maurier, The Perplexed Heart (London, 1939), p. 15.
42 Ibid., p. 16.
43 Angela du Maurier, Reveille (London, 1950), p. 10.
44 Gerald, p. 225.
45 Ibid., pp. 204, 205.
46 Growing Pains, p. 144.
47 Ibid.
48 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 107.
49 Growing Pains, p. 145.
CHAPTER SIX: Set on Adventure
1 D. J. Taylor, Bright Young People (London, 2007), p 225.
2 Letter from DdM to Maureen Baker-Munton, 4 Jul 1957, quoted in Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 421.
3 Gerald, pp. 243–44.
4 Growing Pains, p. 154.
5 New Statesman, 25 Aug 1928, quoted in Florence Tamagne, A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris (New York, 2004), p. 154.
6 The Little Less, pp. 174–75.
7 Only the Sister, p. 90.
8 Cornish Review, summer 1973, p. 11.
9 Francis Toye, For What We Have Received (London, 1950), p. 216.
10 Ibid., p. 217.
11 Daphne du Maurier, I’ll Never Be Young Again (London, 2005), p. 247.
12 Ibid., p. 250.
13 Growing Pains, p. 163.
14 Only the Sister, p. 152.
15 The Little Less, p. 60.
16 Ibid., p. 155.
17 Growing Pains, p. 166.
18 Ibid., p. 165.
19 Old Maids Remember, p. 182.
20 Growing Pains, p. 165.
21 Letter from DdM to Tod, 30 Nov 1931, DMM.
22 Ibid., 2 Jul 1931.
23 Only the Sister, p. 159.
24 Conversation with Tessa, Viscountess Montgomery.
25 Letter from DdM to Tod, 30 Nov 1931, DMM.
26 Letter from Mrs Ethel Keane to Margaret Forster, 16 Aug 1991, DMM, ref. EUL MS 207/2.
27 Letter from DdM to Tod, undated [but Apr/May 1932], DMM.
28 Growing Pains, p. 170.
29 Letter from DdM to Muriel du Maurier, 6 Jul 1932, DMM.
30 Letter from DdM to Foy Quiller Couch [Jun/Jul 1932], DMM, ref. EUL MS 207/2.
31 Letter from Tommy Browning to DdM, quoted in Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 195.
32 Letter from DdM to Foy Quiller-Couch [Jun/Jul 1932], DMM.
33 Growing Pains, p. 173.
34 Ibid., p. 171.
35 Daphne du Maurier, The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories (London, 2007), pp. 175–76.
36 Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 81.
CHAPTER SEVEN: Stepping Out
1 Letter from DdM to Muriel du Maurier, 6 Jul 1932, DMM, ref. EUL MS 207/2.
2 Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Divine to Margaret Forster, DMM, ref. EUL MS 307.
3 Cornish Review, summer 1973, p. 8.
4 Only the Sister, p. 170.
5 Edited John Hoole, Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Bernard Meninsky, 1891–1950 (Oxford, 1981), pp. 18–22.
6 Only the Sister, p. 174.
7 Ibid., p. 175.
8 Letter from DdM to Tod, 2 Nov 1932, DMM.
9 Only the Sister, p. 166.
10 Letter from DdM to Tod, 12 Aug 1933, DMM.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Only the Sister, p. 166.
14 Ibid., p. 176.
15 The Rebecca Notebook, p. 122.
16 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Jan 1948.
17 Only the Sister, p. 178.
18 Ibid., pp. 179–80.
19 James Agate, Brief Chronicles: A Survey of the Plays of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans (London, 1943), p. 179.
20 William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Cambridge, 1998), p. 82.
21 Only the Sister, pp. 183–84.
22 Old Maids Remember, p. 154.
23 Caroline Ramsden, A View from Primrose Hill (London, 1984), p. 61.
24 Ibid., p. 68.
25 Vanne diary, 1 Aug 1935, GFD.
26 Ibid., 20 Jan 1936.
27 Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (London, 1995), p. 35.
28 Vanne diary, 4 Apr 1935, GFD.
29 Ibid., 12 Oct 1935.
30 Only the Sister, pp. 184–85.
31 Old Maids Remember, p. 110.
32 Vanne diary, 24 Jul 1935, GFD.
33 Ibid., 31 Jul 1935.
34 Old Maids Remember, p. 4.
35 Vanne diary, 10 Aug 1935, GFD.
36 Letter from Angela du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 28 Dec 1944, GFD.
37 Vanne diary, 3 Jul 1935, GFD.
38 Letter from Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies to Marda Vanne, 9 Jun 1950, GFD.
39 Only the Sister, p. 186.
40 Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 117.
41 Letter from DdM to Tod, early 1935, DMM.
42 Growing Pains, p. 168.
43 Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn (London, 2003), p. 166.
44 Letter from DdM to Tod, Jul 1937, DMM.
45 Ibid., 12 Sep 1936.
46 Only the Sister, p. 187.
47 Ibid.
48 Derek Patmore (ed.), My Friends When Young: The Memoirs of Brigit Patmore (London, 1968), p. 1.
49 Ibid.
CHAPTER EIGHT: A Transfiguring Flame
1 Letter from DdM to Tod, 7 Apr 1937, DMM.
2 Only the Sister, p. 196.
3 Flavia Leng, Daphne du Maurier: A Daughter’s Memoir (Edinburgh, 1994), p. 18.
4 Only the Sister, p. 194.
5 Ibid., p. 191.
6 Ibid., p. 192.
7 Ibid., p. 189.
8 Valentine Ackland, For Sylvia (London, 1985), pp. 83–4.
9 Cornish Review, summer 1973, p. 8.
10 Letter from DdM to Tod, 12 Sep 1936, DMM.
11 Forster, Daphne du Maurier, pp. 134–35.
12 Leng, A Daughter’s Memoir, p. 20.
13 Old Maids Remember, p. 89.
14 Only the Sister, p. 198.
15 Ibid.
16 Author conversations with Chris James, Laird of Torosay and great-grandson of Olive Guthrie, who was himself very sympathetic to his great-grandmother, pointing out how lonely she must have been in her long widowhood.
17 Only the Sister, pp. 248–49.
18 Ibid., p. 202.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid., p. 205.
21 Old Maids Remember, p. 184.
22 See www.kirkusreviews.com/…/angela-du-maurier-2/the-perplexed-heart.
23 Saturday Review of Literature, Vol XX, No. 4, 20 May 1939, p. 19.
24 The Spinning Wheel, p. 2.
25 Only the Sister, p. 207.
26 Ibid.
27 Letter from DdM to ED, 4 Dec 1947.
28 Letter from DdM to Tod, 8 Oct [1940], DMM.
CHAPTER NINE: Fruits of War
1 Letter from Pam Michael (Fox) to author, 25 Nov 2010.
2 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Nov 1954.
3 See www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revews/angela-du-maurier.
4 Only the Sister, p. 220.
5 Ibid., pp. 209–10.
6 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Nov 1954.
7 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 50.
8 Letter from DdM to ED, 10 Dec 1947.
9 Letter from DdM to Tod, 13 Jul 1940, DMM.
10 Only the Sister, p. 217.
11
Ibid., pp. 214–15.
12 Letter from DdM to Tod, 13 Nov 1940, DMM.
13 Leng, A Daughter’s Memoir, p. 29.
14 Letter from DdM to Tod, 8 Jun 1941, DMM.
15 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 134.
16 Ibid.
17 Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman’s Creek (London, 2003), p. 106.
18 Letter from DdM to Evie Williams, 18 Nov 1948, DMM.
19 Letter from DdM to Tod, 24 Mar 1943, DMM.
20 Milwaukee Journal, 17 Aug 1941, p. 51.
21 Saturday Review of Literature, XXIV, No. 19, 30 Aug 1941, p. 15.
22 Only the Sister, p. 229.
23 Ibid., p. 232.
24 Ibid., p. 237.
25 Ibid., p. 223.
26 Rodney Ackland and Elspeth Grant, The Celluloid Mistress or the Custard Pie of Dr Caligari (London, 1954), p. 230.
27 Letter from DdM to Tod, 16 Aug [1942], DMM.
28 Old Maids Remember, p. 183.
29 Letter from DdM to Tod, 11 Jun 1942, DMM.
30 Only the Sister, p. 227.
31 Ibid., p. 235.
32 Ibid., p. 240.
33 Letter from DdM to Tod, 16 Aug [1943], DMM.
34 Ibid., 11 Jun 1942.
35 Ibid., 25 May 1943.
36 Leng, A Daughter’s Memoir, p. 56.
37 Milwaukee Sentinel, 19 Sep 1948, p. 33.
38 Letter from DdM to Tod, 24 Jan [in envelope for 1943, but more likely 1944], DMM.
39 Letter from Angela du Maurier to Gertrude Lawrence, 1 Feb [1943], private collection.
40 Only the Sister, p. 243.
41 Milwaukee Sentinel, 19 Sep 1948, p. 33.
42 Letter from DdM to Frederick Kelly, 29 Mar 1967, quoted in Richard Mead, General Boy (Yorkshire, 2010), pp. 147–48.
CHAPTER TEN: A Mind in Flight
1 Only the Sister, p. 248.
2 Letter from DdM to Tod, 20 Dec 1944, DMM.
3 Letter from DdM to ED, 4 Dec 1947.
4 Letter from Tommy Browning to ED, 23 Nov 1947.
5 Letter from DdM to ED, 23 Aug 1948.
6 Ibid., 4 Dec 1947.
7 Ibid., 10 Dec 1947.
8 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 80.
9 Letter from DdM to ED, p. 146.
10 Letter from DdM to ED, 15 Jul 1948.
11 Ibid., 4 Feb 1948.
12 Ibid., 7 Dec 1948.
13 Ibid., 6 Mar 1949.
14 Ibid., 13 Jan 1948.
15 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 112.
16 Letter from DdM to Foy Quiller-Couch, 3 Jun 1959, DMM.
17 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Jan 1948.
18 Ibid., 10 Dec 1947.
19 Ibid., 21 Jan 1948.
20 Letter from ED to DdM, 7 Jan 1947 [1948].
21 Letter from DdM to ED, 3 May 1949.
22 Letter from ED to DdM, 13 Apr 1948.
23 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Nov 1954.
24 Ibid., 28 Oct 1948.
25 Ibid., 18 Nov 1948.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid., 8 May 1951.
28 Ibid., 30 Dec 1948.
29 Ibid., 15 Jul 1948.