The loving spirit daphne du maurier6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Her family connections helped her establish her literary career, and she published some of her early work in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter. ![]() ![]() She and her sisters were indulged as a children and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby, and her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer Comyns Beaumont. In many ways her life resembles a fairy tale. Daphne du Maurier was born on at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel, née Beaumont. ![]()
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