I . Daphne du Maurier
(1907–89)
a popular English writer of exciting and romantic novels set in the south-west of England. Films of her most famous novel, Rebecca (1938), and one of her short stories, The Birds (1952), were made by Alfred Hitchcock .
II . George du Maurier
(1834–96)
a cartoonist and writer of novels, the son of English and French parents. He is best known for his cartoons (= humorous drawings) in Punch about the social life of rich people. His novels were also very successful, and the name of one of his characters, Svengali in the novel Trilby , has become part of the English language. He was the grandfather of Daphne du Maurier .