Mary Anne

Daphne du Maurier's novel Mary Anne (1954) is a fictionalised account of the real-life story of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776-1852).

Mary Anne Clarke from 1803 to 1808 was mistress (lover) of Frederick Augustus, the Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827).

He was "The Grand Old Duke of York" of the nursery rhyme, a son of King George III and brother of the later King George IV.

Works by Daphne du Maurier
Fiction
Novels
  • The Loving Spirit (1931)
  • I'll Never Be Young Again (1932)
  • The Progress of Julius (1933)
  • Jamaica Inn (1936)
  • Rebecca (1938)
  • Frenchman's Creek (1941)
  • Hungry Hill (1943)
  • The King's General (1946)
  • The Parasites (1949)
  • My Cousin Rachel (1951)
  • Mary Anne (1954)
  • The Scapegoat (1957)
  • Castle Dor (1961)
  • The Glass-Blowers (1963)
  • The Flight of the Falcon (1965)
  • The House on the Strand (1969)
  • Rule Britannia (1972)
Short stories and collections
  • Happy Christmas (1940)
  • Come Wind, Come Weather (1940)
  • The Apple Tree (1952)
  • Early Stories (1959)
  • The Breaking Point (1959)
  • The Birds and Other Stories (1963)
  • Not After Midnight (1971)
  • The Rendezvous and Other Stories (1980)
Plays
  • Rebecca (1940)
  • The Years Between (1945)
  • September Tide (1948)
Non-fiction
  • Gerald (1934)
  • The du Mauriers (1937)
  • The Young George du Maurier (1951)
  • The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1960)
  • Vanishing Cornwall (1967)
  • Golden Lads (1975)
  • The Winding Stairs (1976)
  • Growing Pains — the Shaping of a Writer (a.k.a. Myself When Young — the Shaping of a Writer) (1977)
  • Enchanted Cornwall (1989)

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