Thursday, February 24, 2011

Daphne du Maurier Update

BBC News: "Rare early work by Cornwall's Daphne du Maurier has been found by a local bookseller.

Ann Willmore who runs Bookends in Fowey has found a rare collection of short stories by the celebrated author.

Ms Willmore stumbled across some of the titles over the internet.

One of the most exciting finds for du Maurier fans is a story called The Doll. It was written when du Maurier was barely in her 20s.

Many of the stories were only featured once in magazines in the UK and USA in the 1930s."

1 comment:

Todd Mason said...

One has to wonder how many she "discovered" in the FictionMags Index we've helped to compile. Surely those items weren't actually "discovered" by the indexers in question.

du MAURIER, DAPHNE; [i.e., Dame Daphne du Maurier Browning] (1907-1989) (chron.)
* The Alibi, (nv) 1956
Ladies Home Journal Apr 1959
John Bull May 30 1959
* And His Letters Grow Colder, (ss) Cosmopolitan Sep 1931
* The Birds, (nv) Good Housekeeping Oct 1952
Good Housekeeping May 1985
* The Blue Lenses, (nv) Ladies Home Journal May 1959
* Castle Dor (with Q), (ab) Ladies Home Journal Nov 1961
* The Chamois, (nv) Ladies Home Journal Sep 1959
* Don’t Look Now, (na) 1966
Ladies Home Journal Dec 1970
* Escort, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post 1940
Argosy (UK) Oct 1940
Magpie Oct 1951
* The Flight of the Falcon, (sl) Good Housekeeping Apr 1965
* Frenchman’s Creek, (sl) Ladies Home Journal Oct 1941
* The Happy Valley, (ss) The Illustrated London News Christmas 1932
* The Limpet, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1959
* Mary Anne, (ab) Woman’s Home Companion Jun 1955
* Mousie and Hoosie, (ss) Modern Story Oct 1935
* My Cousin Rachel, (sl) 1951
Ladies Home Journal Feb 1952
* The Old Man, (ss) The Apple Tree, London: Gollancz 1952
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1953
* Rendezvous, (ss) Cosmopolitan Jun 1959
* The Scapegoat, (sl) Ladies Home Journal Dec 1956, Mar 1957
* The Scapegoat, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jan 1957
* Shock of Recognition, (sl) Ladies Home Journal Aug, Sep 1971