Daphne Du Maurier was born in London in 1907. Her grandfather was a famous caricaturist, her father was an actor-manager, and her mother was an actress, so she was born into an artistic and literary family. This gave her great exposure to literature and art through her parents’ professional and personal network. Du Maurier had an active imagination and began writing as a young woman. Her first short story was published when she was a teenager.
In 1931, Du Maurier wrote and published The Loving Spirit, her first novel. It was immediately successful. It even caught the attention of a gentleman suitor, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick “Boy” Browning, who read the novel and fell in love with Du...
