#menabilly

[edgyparrot]

Polridmouth cove - the real Rebecca beach next to Menabilly, where Daphne du Maurier used to live.

(Photos by me)

[historyfiles]

Restormel (South)

Tregamnion Church near Menabilly in Cornwall had its foundation stone laid in April 1813 by Rachel, wife of William Rashleigh of Tregaminion Barton, Menabilly.

[bertieherrtage]

Daphne du Maurier at her desk in Menabilly - Hans Wild, 1944

[librophile]

Menabilly - Wikipedia

[englishcottagedreams]

(via Polridmouth Cove. Nikon D3100. DSC_0063 by Robert Pittman| Flickr!)

[daphnedumaurier-blog]

Geraldine Somerville as Daphne du Maurier in Daphne (BBC, 2007) and Daphne herself in the interview which inspired the pose for the BBC bio-pic. 

The interview can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6hxpVwUO2M

[daphnedumaurier-blog]

Du Maurier Facts

Menabilly House had been owned by the Rashleigh family for three centuries before Daphne and her husband Tommy moved in.

Menabilly house consists of 70 rooms, most of which remained unused during Daphne's time there.

The du Maurier/Browning family chose to live in only 11 of the rooms in the west-wing.

The house was inhabited by two ghosts; the ghost of a Cavalier, whose body was found 200 years after burial, and the ghost of the "blue lady."  

[daphnedumaurier-blog]

Daphne du Maurier and her three children, Tessa, Flavia and Kits, at their home, Menabilly.