Piffy, Bird & Bing
Page 46
30 Ibid., 23 Aug [1948].
31 The Parasites, p. 13.
32 Ibid., p. 192.
33 Letter from DdM to ED, 23 Aug 1953.
34 Letter from DdM to Evie Williams, 22 Jan 1951, DMM, ref. EUL MS 307/2/1/3.
35 Letter from DdM to ED, 18 Sep 1952.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid., 9 Aug 1951.
38 Ibid., 1 Jul 1950.
39 Ibid., 9 Aug 1951.
40 Letter from Gertrude Lawrence to DdM, 13 Sep 1951, private collection.
41 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 133.
42 Ibid., p. 111.
43 Ibid., p. 178.
44 Old Maids Remember, p. 4.
45 Author conversation with Betty Williams, 16 July 2011.
46 Letter from Angela du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 28 Dec [1944], GFD.
47 Ibid.
48 Letter from DdM to ED, 26 Feb 1953.
49 Letter from Angela du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 28 Dec [1944], GFD.
50 Only the Sister, pp. 249–50.
51 Letter from Angela du Maurier to Sir Shane Leslie, 21 Dec 1935, Sir Shane Leslie Papers at Georgetown University Library, Washington DC.
52 Ibid.
53 Only the Sister, p. 258.
54 Angela du Maurier, Lawrence Vane (London, 1946), p. 119.
55 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Jan 1948.
56 Only the Sister, p. 261.
57 Letter from Jeanne du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 25 May [1949], GFD.
58 David Tovey, Creating a Splash: St Ives Society of Artists (Wiltshire, 2003), p. 215.
59 Alison James, A Singular Vision: Dod Procter, 1890–1972 (Bristol, 2007), p. 78.
60 Quotation from Dame Laura Knight in Tovey, Creating a Splash, p. 154.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: A Kind of Reckoning
1 Letter from DdM to ED, 19 Jul 1948.
2 Ibid., 26 Feb 1953.
3 Leng, A Daughter’s Memoir, p. 90.
4 Ibid., p. 166.
5 Letter from DdM to ED, [24] Nov 1949.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid., 21 Dec 1949.
8 Daphne du Maurier, The Birds and Other Stories (London, 2004), p. 242.
9 Letter from DdM to ED [15 Feb 1952].
10 Ibid., 5 Oct 1953.
11 Letter from Jeanne du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 25 May [1949], GFD.
12 Ibid., 26 Apr [1949?].
13 Ibid.
14 Letter from DdM to ED, 21 Oct 1950.
15 Letter from Jeanne du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 25 May [1949], GFD.
16 Ibid.
17 Old Maids Remember, p. 184.
18 Only the Sister, p. 264.
19 Reveille, p. 161.
20 Angela du Maurier, Shallow Waters (London, 1952), p. 11.
21 Ibid., p. 3.
22 Ibid., p. 244.
23 Ibid., pp. 244, 247.
24 Old Maids Remember, pp. 185–86.
25 Only the Sister, p. 96.
26 Letter from Betty Williams to author, 26 Sep 2012.
27 Letter from Angela du Maurier to Marda Vanne, 18 Apr 1951, GFD.
28 Ibid.
29 Letter from DdM to ED, 8 May 1951.
30 Tovey, Creating a Splash, p. 154.
31 Cornish Review, summer 1973, p. 18.
32 Homes & Gardens, Oct 1961, p. 104.
33 Ibid., p. 105.
34 Letter from DdM to ED, 23 Aug 1953.
35 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 59.
36 See www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daphne-du-maurier.
37 Letter from DdM to Evie Williams, 25 Jul 1955, DMM.
38 Letter from DdM to ED, 16 Dec 1957.
39 Gore Vidal, Palimpsest (London, 1995), p. 103.
40 Piers Paul Read, Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (New York, 2003), p. 308.
41 Ibid., p. 310.
42 Author conversation with Tessa, Viscountess Montgomery, 24 Aug 2012.
43 Letter from DdM to Maureen Baker-Munton, 4 Jul 1957, quoted in Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 421.
44 Letter from DdM to ED, 18 Dec 1957.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid., 23 Jan 1953.
CHAPTER TWELVE: Heading for Home
1 Letter from DdM to Maureen Baker-Munton, 4 Jul 1957, quoted in Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 421.
2 Letter from DdM to Tod, 3 Jun 1945, DMM.
3 Letter from DdM to ED, 1 Jul 1950.
4 Letter from Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies to Marda Vanne, 9 Jun 1950, GFD.
5 Letter from DdM to ED, 16 Dec 1957.
6 Ibid.
7 Letter from DdM to Evie Williams, 30 Nov 1957, DMM.
8 Letter from DdM to ED, 16 Dec 1957.
9 Old Maids Remember, p. 57.
10 Ibid., p. 54.
11 Ibid., p. 70.
12 Ibid., p. 86.
13 Ibid., p. 87.
14 Letter from DdM to ED, 24 Nov 1963.
15 Angela du Maurier, Pilgrims by the Way (London, 1967), p. 2.
16 Letter from ED to DdM, 18 Dec 1958.
17 Old Maids Remember, p. 186.
18 Letter from DdM to ED, 5 Oct 1959.
19 Ibid., 21 Dec 1949.
20 Ibid., 25 May 1960.
21 A. L. Rowse, Friends and Contemporaries (London, 1989), p. 278.
22 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 164.
23 Letter from DdM to ED, 1 Mar 1963.
24 Letter from DdM to Foy Quiller-Couch, 16 Aug 1962, DMM.
25 Letter from DdM to ED, 1 Mar 1963.
26 Rowse, Friends and Contemporaries, p. 273.
27 Letter from DdM to Foy Quiller-Couch, 29 Jan 1964, DMM.
28 Daphne du Maurier, The Flight of the Falcon (London, 2005), p. 117.
29 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 167.
30 Quoted in Mead, General Boy, p. 225.
31 The Rebecca Notebook, p. 123.
32 Forster, Daphne du Maurier, p. 364.
33 The Rebecca Notebook, pp. 178–79.
34 Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand (London, 2003), p. 42.
35 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 243.
36 Daphne du Maurier, Rule Britannia (London, 2004), p. 25.
37 Ibid., p. 1.
38 Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 209.
39 Ibid., p. 284.
40 Ibid., p. 294.
41 Michael Williams (ed.), My Cornwall (Bodmin, 1973), pp. 35–6.
42 Vanishing Cornwall, pp. 5, 6.
AFTERWORD
1Malet, Letters from Menabilly, p. 295.
2The Rebecca Notebook, p. 127.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Other than the exceptions noted below, the photographs that appear in the plate sections have been provided by Daphne’s family, for which many thanks. They are copyright of The Chichester Partnership. I am particularly pleased to be able to reproduce Kits Browning’s photograph of the view from Ferryside.
Plate Section 1 (Black and White)
1: Gerald du Maurier © Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy.
2: Gerald du Maurier at Westminster Cathedral © Topfoto.
3: Jeanne, Muriel and Daphne on a stone garden seat © National Portrait Gallery, London.
4: Jeanne studio portrait © National Portrait Gallery, London; Angela studio portrait © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans.
5: Betty Williams, courtesy of Betty Williams.
6: Carol Reed © Ronald Grant Archive.
Plate Section 2 (Colour)
1: The du Mauriers © Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy.
2: Gerald du Maurier for Vanity Fair by Leslie Ward © Mary Evans Picture Library; The Bystander © Mary Evans Picture Library.
3: Portrait of Daphne du Maurier by Jeanne du Maurier, photographed by Susanna Stables, courtesy of Ann and David Willmore.
4: The Bird Cage, courtesy of Royal West of England Academy; Mimosa, photographed by Luke Mitchell, courtesy of Royal West of England Academy.
5: George du Maurier and Gertrude Lawrence © Ronald Grant Archive/ArenalPAL/TopFoto.
6: Daphne
with Kits, and Flavia in the background © Popperfoto/Getty Images: Daphne, Kits and Flavia picnicking © Popperfoto/Getty Images.
7: The view from Ferryside © Christian Browning.
Plate Section 3 (Black and White)
1: Noël Welch © Ray Bishop.
2: Daphne and Tommy with their children © Getty Images.
3: Daphne meeting Gertrude Lawrence at Waterloo, private collection; Maud ‘Tod’ Waddell sketching, courtesy of the Waddell family.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
Archives
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT: Daphne du Maurier letters to the Hon. Stephen Tennant
Du Maurier Manuscript Collection, Heritage Collections, University of Exeter, Devon: poems and other papers relating to Angela du Maurier (reference EUL MS 207/5); Daphne du Maurier letters to: Maud Waddell (‘Tod’), to Lady du Maurier, copies of letters to Foy Quiller-Couch, letter to Tessa Browning, letters to Evie Williams
Ellen McCarter Doubleday Papers, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ: Daphne du Maurier letters to Ellen Doubleday
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Manuscripts Archive, Martial Rose Library, University of Winchester, Hampshire: Angela du Maurier’s letters to Marda Vanne; Marda Vanne’s diary and other letters
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Centre, Boston University, MA: Naomi Jacob papers
St Ives Trust Study Centre, St Ives, Cornwall: material on the St Ives Society of Artists and on Jeanne du Maurier
Library at St John’s College, Cambridge University: unpublished diaries of Sir Cecil Beaton
Seymour Hicks and Ellaline Terriss Archive, private collection, Deal, Kent: material relating to Betty Hicks
The Sir Shane Leslie Papers, Georgetown University Library, Washington DC: Angela du Maurier letters to Sir Shane Leslie
Timothy Morgan-Owen private collection: Gertrude Lawrence material
PUBLISHED SOURCES
Journals
The Cornish Review; Kirkus Reviews (www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daphne-du-maurier); The Listener (BBC, London, 1929–91, gale.cengage.co.uk/product-highlights/history/the-listener-historical-archive.aspx); Milwaukee Sentinel (now Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, www.jsonline.com); New Statesman; Saturday Review of Literature (now Saturday Review, www.newyorker.com)
Books
Angela du Maurier: Fiction
The Perplexed Heart (Michael Joseph; Doubleday Doran, 1939)
The Spinning Wheel (Michael Joseph, 1940) published in the US as Weep No More (Doubleday Doran, 1940)
The Little Less (Michael Joseph; Doubleday Doran, 1941)
Treveryan (Michael Joseph; Doubleday Doran, 1942)
Lawrence Vane: a Novel (Peter Davies, 1946)
Birkinshaw and other stories (Peter Davies, 1948)
Reveille (Peter Davies, 1950)
Shallow Waters (Peter Davies, 1952)
The Road to Leenane (Peter Davies; Appleton/Century, 1963)
The Frailty of Nature (Peter Davies, 1969)
Angela du Maurier: Non-Fiction
It’s Only the Sister: An Autobiography (Peter Davies, 1951)
Old Maids Remember: Autobiography (Peter Davies, 1965)
Pilgrims by the Way (Peter Davies, 1967)
S is for Sin (Church Literature Association, 1979)
Daphne du Maurier: Fiction
The Loving Spirit (Heinemann, 1931)
I’ll Never Be Young Again (Heinemann; Doubleday Doran, 1932)
The Progress of Julius (Heinemann; Doubleday Doran, 1933)
Jamaica Inn (Gollancz; Doubleday Doran, 1936)
Rebecca (Gollancz, 1938; stage adaptation, 1940)
Happy Christmas (Doubleday Doran, 1940) short story
Come Wind, Come Weather (Heinemann, 1940) collection of short stories
Frenchman’s Creek (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1941)
Hungry Hill (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1943)
The Years Between: A Play in Two Acts (Gollancz, 1945)
The King’s General (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1946)
September Tide: A Play in Three Acts (Gollancz, 1948)
The Parasites (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1949)
My Cousin Rachel (Gollancz, 1951)
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories (Gollancz, 1952)
Kiss Me Again, Stranger: A Collection of Eight Stories, Long and Short (Gollancz, 1952)
Mary Anne, A Novel (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1954)
The Scapegoat (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1957)
Early Stories (Gollancz, 1959) short story collection, written 1927–30
The Breaking Point (Gollancz, 1959) short story collection, aka The Blue Lenses
Castle Dor, with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (J. M. Dent; Doubleday, 1961)
The Birds and Other Stories (Gollancz, 1963) republication of The Apple Tree
The Glass-Blowers (Gollancz, 1963)
The Flight of the Falcon (Gollancz, 1965)
The House on the Strand (Gollancz; Doubleday, 1969)
Not After Midnight, And Other Stories (Gollancz, 1971) published in the US as Don’t Look Now (Doubleday, 1971)
Rule Britannia (Gollancz, 1972)
The Rendezvous and Other Stories (Gollancz, 1980)
Daphne du Maurier: Non-fiction
Gerald: A Portrait (Gollancz, 1934; Doubleday Doran, 1935)
The du Mauriers (Gollancz, 1937)
The Young George du Maurier (Peter Davies, 1951)
The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (Gollancz, 1960)
Vanishing Cornwall, with photographs by Christian Browning (Doubleday, 1967)
Golden Lads: Sir Francis Bacon, Anthony Bacon and their Friends (Gollancz, 1975)
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall (Doubleday, 1976)
Growing Pains – the Shaping of a Writer (Gollancz 1971) published in the US as Myself When Young – the Shaping of Writer (Doubleday, 1977)
The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories (Doubleday, 1980)
Enchanted Cornwall (M. Joseph; Viking Penguin, 1989)
Other Works Cited
Ackland, Rodney, and Elspeth Grant, The Celluloid Mistress or the Custard Pie of Dr Caligari (A. Wingate, 1954)
Ackland, Valentine, For Sylvia: An Honest Account (Chatto & Windus, 1985)
Agate, James, Red Letter Nights (Jonathan Cape, 1944)
Aldrich, Richard Stoddard, Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A: An Intimate Biography of the Great Star (Odhams, 1954)
Auerbach, Nina, Daphne du Maurier: Haunted Heiress (Penn Press, 2012)
Bailey, Paul, Three Queer Lives (Hamish Hamilton, 2001)
Barrie, J. M., Peter Pan; or the boy who wouldn’t grow up (1904)
——Peter and Wendy (Charles Scribner & Sons; Hodder and Stoughton, 1911)
Bouvet, Vincent, and Gérard Durozoi, Paris Between the Wars: Art, Style and Glamour in the Crazy Years (Thames and Hudson, 2010)
Buckle, Richard, ed., Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1979)
Clutterbuck, Ivan, The Pelican in the Wilderness (Gracewing, 2008)
Connolly, Cyril, Enemies of Promise (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1938)
Cook, Judith, Daphne: A Portrait of Daphne du Maurier (Bantam Press, 1991)
Dudgeon, Piers, Captivated: J. M. Barrie, the du Mauriers and the Dark Side of Neverland (Chatto & Windus, 2008)
du Maurier, George, Peter Ibbetson (Jonathan Cape, 1891)
——Trilby (Harper and Brothers, 1894)
Dunn, Jane, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: a Very Close Conspiracy (Jonathan Cape, 1990; reissued Virago, 2000)
Eckersley, Roger, The BBC and All That (Sampson Low, 1946)
Forster, Margaret, Daphne Du Maurier (Secker and Warburg; Doubleday, 2012)
Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness (J. Cape, 1928; 2006)
Harding, James, Gerald du Maurier (Hodder and Stou
ghton, 1989)
Hattersley, Roy, The Edwardians (Little Brown, 2004)
Hoole, John, ed., Bernard Meninsky, 1891–1950 (Catalogue Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1981)
Horner, Avril, and Sue Zlosnik, Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998)
Jacobs, Naomi, Me: A Chronicle About Other People (Hutchinson, 1933)
James, Alison, A Singular Vision: Dod Procter, 1890–1972 (Sansom and Co., 2007)
Ladenson, Elizabeth, Dirt for Art’s Sake: Books on Trial (Ithaca, 2007)
Leng, Flavia, A Daughter’s Memoir (Mainstream Publishing, 1999)
Malet, Oriel, ed., Letters from Menabilly: Portrait of a Friendship (Orion, 1994)
Mauclair, Camille, De L’Amour Physique (Paul Ollendorff, 1912)
Mead, Richard, General Boy: The Life of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Browning (Pen and Sword, 2010)
Nichols, Beverley, Twenty-Five (Jonathan Cape, 1926)
Oldham, Alison, Everyone Was Working: Writers and Artists in Post-war St Ives (Tate Publishing, 2002)
Patmore, Derek, ed., My Friends When Young: The Memoirs of Brigit Patmore (Heinemann, 1968)
Pertwee, Roland, Master of None (Peter Davies, 1940)
Ramsden, Caroline, A View from Primrose Hill (Hutchinson Benham, 1984)
Read, Piers Paul, Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (Simon and Schuster, 2003)
Rose, Marshal, ed., Forever Juliet: The Life and Letters of Gwen Frangcon-Davies, 1891–1992 (Larks Press, 2003)
Rowse, A. L., Friends and Contemporaries (Trafalgar Square, 1991)
Shakespeare, William, Anthony and Cleopatra (play)
Tamagne, Florence, A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris (Algora, 2004)
Taylor, D. J., Bright Young People (Chatto & Windus, 2007)
Taylor, Helen, ed., The Daphne du Maurier Companion (Virago, 2007)
Tovey, David, Creating a Splash: the St Ives Society of Artists, the First 25 Years, 1927–1952, Exhibition Catalogue and Dictionary of Members (Wilson Books, 1995)
Toye, Francis, For What We Have Received (Alfred A. Knopf, 1950)
Vickers, Hugo, Cecil Beaton (Phoenix, 1985)
——ed., The Unexpurgated Beaton Diaries (Phoenix, 2001)
Vidal, Gore, Palimpsest (André Deutsch; Random House, 1995)
Waugh, Evelyn, Vile Bodies (Chapman and Hall, 1930)
Welch, Noël, Ten Poems, Crescendo Poetry Series, No. 5 (The Latin Press, 1952)
——A Shadow to its Tree (Moor Print, 2006)
Westland, Ella, Reading Daphne: A Guide to the Writing of Daphne du Maurier for Readers and Book Groups (Truran, 2007)