WRITER

Daphne du Maurier

1907 - 1989

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Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daphne du Maurier has received more than 4,059,733 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Daphne du Maurier is the 638th most popular writer (down from 619th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 492nd in 2019) and the 53rd most popular British Writer.

Daphne du Maurier is most famous for her novel "Rebecca" which was published in 1938. The novel is about a young woman who marries a widower and moves into his estate, Manderley. The estate is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first wife of the widower.

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  • 4.1M

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  • 70.09

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Daphne du Maurier ranks 638 out of 7,302. Before her are Raymond Queneau, Edward Bernays, Curzio Malaparte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Saul Bellow, and Clarice Lispector. After her are William Makepeace Thackeray, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ivan Franko, Irène Némirovsky, Kōbō Abe, and Alexander Pope.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Daphne du Maurier ranks 32. Before her are John Bowlby, Horst Wessel, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, and Daniel Bovet. After her are Otto Ohlendorf, Hans Selye, Burgess Meredith, Giovanna of Italy, Maurice Blanchot, and Erich Mielke. Among people deceased in 1989, Daphne du Maurier ranks 31. Before her are Hu Yaobang, Ferdinand Marcos, Silvana Mangano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Emilio Segrè, and George Beadle. After her are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, Joris Ivens, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Hermann Oberth, and Michel Aflaq.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Daphne du Maurier ranks 461 out of 8,785. Before her are Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Bonham (1948), John Edward Gray (1800), Thomas Harriot (1560), William Adams (1564), and Austen Chamberlain (1863). After her are John Wallis (1616), Edward the Martyr (962), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Julia Gillard (1961), Helena Bonham Carter (1966), and Sid Vicious (1957).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Daphne du Maurier ranks 53. Before her are Enid Blyton (1897), Samuel Butler (1835), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Donne (1572), J. M. Barrie (1860), and Samuel Johnson (1709). After her are Alexander Pope (1688), Muriel Spark (1918), Martin Amis (1949), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), Ian McEwan (1948), and Douglas Adams (1952).

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