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A very good copy bound finely woven black paper-covered boards. Stamped brightly in gold on the spine. Vertical abrasion strips on the front and rear paste-downs where the dust jacket was once taped down. Name and date (Dorothy Bates/ Sept. 1966) in orange marker on the front endpaper. The jacket is good only with several closed tears, soiling, and beige tape strips along the edges of the flaps. This copy, however, has two typed letters signed by "Daphne du Maurier" and Daphne du Maurier Browning", respectively; the first is glued onto the title page, and the second is a full-page letter glued to page ix just after the Acknowledgments page. The first letter on the title page is 7 typed lines signed in ink: Do ask Mr. Robinson of the Sowerby Bridge Public Library if he has a copy of my Fowey sisters book, just out, called "Old Maids Remember." It is delightful, and you would love it, full of glimpses of our younger days, and amusing photographs of the three of us. With best wishes always, Yours very sincerely "Daphne du Maurier" (blue ink) The second letter after the acknowledgments is 17 typed lines signed in blue ink: "Daphne du Maurier Browning": "So glad you liked my sisters book. I shall tell her when she next comes to lunch. She comes once a week, generally on Sundays, but she is a much busier person than I am, on her parish council, Conservative committees, good works, and does a tremendous amount locally. I love to fancy the three of us are a bit Bronte-ish as sisters, with Angela as Charlotte, myself the solitary one as Emily meeting no one (!) and Jeanne the youngest, who became Catholic, and draws so well, and is musical, is Anne! Keep up the sleuth-work over the Branwell note-book, and think of me next week surrounded by grandchildren and no doubt slipping away in to the woods now and again to get some peace! Yours very sincerely, "Daphne du Maurier Browning" (in bright blue ink) Angela du Maurier (1904 2002) was an English novelist who also wrote two volumes of autobiography, It's Only the Sister(1951) and Old Maids Remember. She was the sister of Daphne du Maurier. The eldest of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont), she was born in St Pancras, London. Her grandfather was the author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the novel Trilby. Although three years older than her better known sisterDaphne, she outlived her by thirteen years. Originally aspiring to follow the family tradition of acting, she planned to be an actress and spent two seasons on the stage. She played Wendy Darling alongside both Gladys Cooper and Dorothy Dickson as Peter Pan. She worked on the land inCornwall during the war and travelled extensively in Europe. She later turned to writing, with the release of her earlier works coinciding with the publication of her sister's Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her works of fiction include The Road to Leenane, Pilgrims by the Way, The Perplexed Heart, Reveille and Treveryan. She lived at Ferryside, the family house in Cornwall, for most of her life. She died inWandsworth, London, aged 97. (Wikipedia) First Edition with "First Published 1966" on the copyright page and no subsequent printings listed.
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