The inn between synopsis3/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Browning was Commander of the 1st Airborne Division in Operation Market Garden in September 1944, portrayed controversially in film by Dirk Bogarde. ![]() In 1932 Daphne du Maurier married Major Frederick Browning and in 1943 while he was at war, she moved to Cornwall with their three children. A story set in the fictitious town of Plyn, it was woven around the lives of local Cornish boat builders and their history. It was whilst staying there, at the house re-named Ferryside, she wrote her first novel The Loving Spirit (published in 1931). This desire was nurtured further by her immediate love for Cornwall, after her parents purchased a holiday home at Bodinnick near Fowey on the coast. Born into a talented, theatrical and artistic family, she was blessed from an early age with a vivid imagination and a desire to write. There are numerous other Daphne-related exhibits and the modest entrance fee (£3.95) also includes admission to the adjacent Smuggling Museum.ĭaphne du Maurier was born in London in 1907, the second daughter of Muriel and Gerald du Maurier. Other exhibits highlight her husband’s war-time experiences - Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning, was Commander of the 1st Airborne Division at the battle for Arnhem upon which the film ‘A Bridge Too Far’ was based. There are also intriguing personal letters by Daphne to her best friend Maureen Baker-Munton that reveal secrets about her private life plus numerous old photos of her and her family. The du Maurier Museum, which is next to the Inn’s Cornish Smuggling Museum, has 3 rooms of exhibits including many recently acquired and never seen in public before, such as original letters from the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles to Daphne and her husband. Jamaica Inn now has the only museum in the world dedicated to Daphne du Maurier, the famous author of Rebecca, The Birds, Frenchman's Creek etc – and of course, Jamaica Inn. ![]()
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