1947. A picture of the novelist Daphne du Maurier lingering below a portrait of the actor, her father on the staircase of "Menabilly" the house that she wove into her stories and eventually into her life. [Getty Images]

1947, A picture of the novelist Daphne du Maurier lingering below a portrait of the actor, her father on the staircase of "Menabilly" the house that she wove into her stories and eventually into her life (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images) — see more

1947, A picture of the novelist Daphne du Maurier lingering below a portrait of the actor, her father on the staircase of "Menabilly" the house that she wove into her stories and eventually into her life (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)