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.
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Works by Daphne du Maurier
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| Plays |
- Rebecca (1940)
- The Years Between (1945)
- September Tide (1948)
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| 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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