The Early Work of Daphne du Maurier

What was Daphne du Maurier's first work, before her award-winning novels Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica Inn? It was a short novel written at her Hampstead Heath home, Cannon Hall, called The Seekers. Seemingly influenced by J. M. Barrie's Tommy and Grizell (1900) and her father Gerald du Maurier, this work was very mature for Daphne's age. The Seekers probes dark themes present in du Maurier's life at the time.

Sources:

Margaret Foster, Daphne du Maurier, New York: Doubleday, 1993

Piers Dudgeon, Captivated, Vintage: 2009

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/abs/dreaming-true-embodied-memory-transubjectivity-and-novelty-in-george-du-mauriers-peter-ibbetson/4958FBB5AEF3F09C4836CBDCE5B0D00B

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8857119/Daphne-du-Mauriers-disturbing-relationship-father-told-old-friend-MICHAEL-THORNTON.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/du-maurier-s-childhood-home-in-hampstead-is-sold-for-ps28-million-10336179.html

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