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The Du Mauriers (1937)

av Daphne du Maurier

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When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer, with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait, and as a novelist. The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best-loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Her aim was to write her family biography 'so that it reads like a novel' and it was due to du Maurier's remarkable imaginative gifts that she was able to breathe life into the characters and depict with affection and wit the relatives she never knew, including her grandfather, the famous Victorian artist and Punch cartoonist - and creator of Trilby. 'Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality . . . a rich vein of huour and satire . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here' Observer… (mer)
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I have immense respect for Daphne Du Maurier, but obviously even talented and multi-faceted authors must struggle to make family history interesting to general readers! Her account of her nineteenth century French/English ancestors, written when she was bored out of her brain in Egypt, doesn't hold together like The Glass Blowers, being more anecdotal. Her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne (also the subject of a biographical novel), was the mistress of 'the Grand Old Duke of York', and of course her grandfather George - 'Kicky', a nickname which quickly becomes very irritating - was the author of Trilby, but other than that - meh. Struggled to finish. ( )
  AdonisGuilfoyle | Sep 28, 2014 |
The Du Mauriers is the biography Daphne Du Maurier wrote about her family in the 19th century. The novel more or less starts where Mary Anne leaves off. Mary Anne Clarke’s daughter, Ellen, is the focus of the first half of the novel. Ellen marries Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier. Of their three children, their oldest son George (“Kicky”) is the focus of the second half of the biography, and covers the beginning of his career as a cartoonist. In this way, the book covers roughly 50 years of the du Maurier family history—and a very interesting history it is, too.

This book is truly written as though it’s fiction—the author puts herself in the position of Ellen and George, writing as though she was witness to her ancestors’ lives (for reference, Ellen and Louis were Daphne Du Maurier’s great-grandparents and George was her grandfather. Daphne was also cousin to the Llewellyn-Davies boys, who inspired Peter Pan). Daphne used her ancestors’ letters to depict their thoughts and feelings and the motives behind their actions. I was a little disappointed that the author chose not to focus on George’s whole life, but I enjoyed reading about the start of his famous career with Punch magazine, his blindness, and his romance with Emma. Daphne relates some very interesting anecdotes about her family members. Mention is also made of the inspiration behind George’s Trilby, one of the bestselling novels of the late 19th century. Daphne portrays her family in a very rosy light, though Mary Anne mostly gets a heavy beating. I especially loved what the author has to say about her ancestors, most dead before she was even born:

"So they pass out of memory and out of these pages, the figures of fifty, of a hundred years ago. Some of them were comic, and some a little tragic, and all of them had faults, but once they were living, breathing men and women like the rest of us, possing the world that we posses today.

Whether immortality is true, or is a theory invented by man as a sop to his natural fear, none of us will ever know; but it is consoling and rather tender to imagine that when we die we leave something of ourselves, like the wake of a vessel, as a reminder that we once passed this way."

At the time of writing this book, Daphne had written Jamaica Inn and was about to write Rebecca; so she was more or less at the height of her career. It’s interesting to analyze that last paragraph in light of her own success as an author! The Du Mauriers is a very readable biography of one extraordinary family. Daphne also wrote a biography of her father, Gerald, the famous actor and stage manager, which might be seen as a continuation of this book (though it was written first). ( )
  Kasthu | Mar 6, 2011 |
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Daphne du Maurier published her family history, The du Mauriers, in 1937 when she was aged thirty.
On a cold spring day in 1810 a little sallow-faced girl of twelve leant with her nose pressed against the windowpane of a tall house in Westbourne Place.
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When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer, with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait, and as a novelist. The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best-loved novels: Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Her aim was to write her family biography 'so that it reads like a novel' and it was due to du Maurier's remarkable imaginative gifts that she was able to breathe life into the characters and depict with affection and wit the relatives she never knew, including her grandfather, the famous Victorian artist and Punch cartoonist - and creator of Trilby. 'Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale; she runs through the generations, giving her family unity and reality . . . a rich vein of huour and satire . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here' Observer

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