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MYSELF WHEN YOUNG
THE SHAPING OF A WRITER |
| By: |
Daphne Du Maurier, Helen Taylor |
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| ISBN 10: |
184408096X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844080960 |
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| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2004 |
| Series: |
Virago Modern Classics |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Daphne du Maurier's autobiography pinpoints the literary influences and overwhelming desire to explore the family history of the girl who became the great writer. |
| Synopsis: |
Both her novels and her non-fiction reveal Daphne du Maurier's overwhelming desire to explore her family's history. In Myself When Young, based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult relationship with her father; her education in Paris; early love affairs; her antipathy towards London life and the theatre; her intense love for Cornwall and her desperate ambition to succeed as a writer. The resulting portrait is of a captivating and complex character. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
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