Latest posts taggedDaphne Du Maurier
Du Maurier’s dark legacy at Jamaica Inn
I hadn’t been terribly familiar with the work of Daphne Du Maurier before reading Jamaica Inn. Don’t be fooled by her name. It...
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High brow on the south coast: Daphne du Maurier festival May 9 – 20 2012
Take one sex toy, a genteel Cornish fishing town, mix with a semi-reclusive authoress who once had the Queen to tea, add a sprinkle of...
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Port Eliot: a house with a difference
Uniquely a house within a museum, a museum within a house, this is a place, you instinctively feel, where anything could happen. And it...
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Daring Du Maurier ‘Doll’ discovered at Bookends, Fowey
Staying at the bookshop Shakespeare & Co. in Paris in my twenties was a merging of all that was most important to me at the time:...
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A right royal gathering – Fowey Royal Regatta
Hot on the heels of Falmouth Week, Fowey Royal Regatta runs from 14 – 20 August when the estuary fills with sails and the town with...
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Port Eliot: delightfully frustrating, annoyingly brilliant
I am still struggling with my first Port Eliot festival experience. My reaction to this three day festival of literature, fashion, food,...
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again: Daphne Du Maurier Festival
Never one to miss an opportunity to indulge in a little networking, or research if you are so discerning, the annual Daphne du Maurier...
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