Daphne du Maurier & Cornwall On this day in 1907 Daphne du Maurier was born. She was raised in London and then Hampstead, but du Maurier always wrote as if her true home were Cornwall, and her true birthday the day when she first saw Fowey harbor and entered "the gateway to another world." With Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, etc. she would do for Cornwall what Hardy did for Wessex.
