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b"The Doll by Daphne du Maurier\\nDame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning was born in 1907 in London in 1931 and died in 1989 in Cornwall. She is a famous novelist with such best-sellers as Rebecca, Frenchman\\u2019s Creek, The Birds and the novella Don\\u2019t Look Now. This story is taken from a collection of short stories written before her famous novels. She was clearly fond of the name Rebecca for the dark-spirited anima-like femme fatale.\\nI did a recording of Don\\u2019t Look Now, which has proved to be my most popular recording on Youtube.(If You Appreciate The Work I\\u2019ve Put In Here - You could buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker or join as a Patron for exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/barcud)\\nHer father was an actor and theatre manager who was knighted for her services to the arts.\\xa0 Her mother Muriel Beaumont was also an actress. \\xa0 Daphne\\u2019s sister Angela was also an author and an actress and her other sister Jeanne who was part of the painter colony in St Ives Cornwall.\\xa0 Daphne and her sister Jeanne look very like their mother in the photographs on the internet.\\xa0 Their cousins were the inspiration for the children in J M Barrie\\u2019s Peter Pan.\\xa0 Her great-great-grandmother was mistress of Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany.\\xa0\\nShe was born when the family were living in a rather grand house on Cumberland Terrace on the eastern side of Regent\\u2019s Park in a house that is now a grade I listed building designed by the famous architect John Nash. Her father\\u2019s success made this possible.\\xa0\\nShe was born in a house Daphne du Maurier became more reclusive as she got more famous and spent her time n her beloved Cornwall. As she grew, the family had two houses \\u2014 one in Hampstead, north London ( a grade II listed building from 1720) and a house in Fowey, Cornwall, where they lived exclusively during the Second World War.\\xa0 She got married to a prominent soldier and had three children, of whom both girls married prominent soldiers.\\xa0\\nThe Wiki notes that her marriage was somewhat chilly and she herself could be distant from her children. Her husband died in 1965, when she was 34.\\xa0 She moved permanently to Kilmarth, Cornwall. She was made a dame (equivalent of a knight) in 1969 but was very reticent about mentioning it and never made much of it. After she died in 1989, biographers discussed whether she was a lesbian. Her sister Jeanne had a close relationship with another woman. She notes that her father always wanted a son and so she was a tomboy. Her children denied that she was a lesbian. When she died of heart failure aged 81, her body was privately cremated.\\xa0 In her obituary, Kate Kellaway said: \\u201cDu Maurier was mistress of calculated irresolution. She did not want to put her readers\\u2019 minds at rest. She wanted her riddles to persist. She wanted the novels to continue to haunt us beyond their endings.\\u201d\\nThe Doll\\nThis story was published in 1937, that is two years after the death of her husband, and one year before the publication of Rebecca. \\xa0 Apparently she was only 21 when she wrote The Doll.\\xa0And you can join my mailing list and get a\\xa0 free audiobook:\\xa0\\nhttps://bit.ly/dalstonvampire\\nMusic By The Heartwood Institute\\nhttps://bit.ly/somecomeback***\\nNew Patreon Request\\nBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!\\xa0Start for FREE\\nSupport the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"