‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’. It’s one of the most famous opening lines in the English literary canon, evoking the mystery, magic and allure of the sprawling country house that has ...
Cornwall holidays: Lose yourself in a romantic trip to Menabilly, Daphne du Maurier's real Manderley
Menabilly, the country mansion that inspired the mysterious Manderley at the centre of Daphne du Maurier’s classic 1938 novel Rebecca, is hidden from prying eyes among private woodland near the pretty ...
Flavia Leng remembers life at Menabilly with her mother, Daphne du Maurier, in 1944 Credit: Photo: Chester Partnership I was familiar with Menabilly before we moved to the house in 1943 because my ...
Daphne du Maurier liked to insulate herself from people, hiding away in a rambling Cornwall mansion, happy to wander the nearby woods and beaches accompanied only by her dogs and the characters and ...
House of secrets: Daphne du Maurier on the staircase at Menabilly A troubled marriage, illicit loves, a spooky Cornish house?… Daphne du Maurier's life had all the ingredients of one of her own ...
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." The opening line of Rebecca is surely the most evocative in the whole of English fiction. And on a summer day in 1966, I sat down to lunch at Menabilly ...
The opening line of Rebecca is among the most evocative in the whole of English fiction: 'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.' I vividly remember the day in 1965 when I sat in the long ...
Her future husband Frederick Browning, known as “Boy” or “Tommy”, was so impressed with the book he put to sea to meet her in Fowey, Cornwall. Though boats remained a shared interest in their ...
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