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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 that of September 14th, 1926, the day when she first saw Fowey harbor and entered "the gateway to another world." At Ferryside, the family's first summer home, du Maurier wrote her first novel, The Loving Spirit; many others were written at Menabilly, the abandoned mansion which she and her husband rented for decades, spending a small fortune on its restoration. ... FULL STORY »
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