The Du Mauriers Just as They Were

“Reading [Hall’s] beautifully illustrated and handsomely produced book, the persevering student becomes acquainted with the history of almost every member of the Busson family.”– “Times Literary Supplement”

Anne Hall Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957 and from there grew up in Seattle, Washington. She went to school in Geneva, Switzerland and St Germain-en-Laye, France and later studied English at Radcliffe College and the University of Washington.Her interest in the Du Mauriers led her to take a PhD in French at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation including George Du Maurier’s memories of the music of his childhood in Passy outside Paris. Subsequently she taught French at the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley, and later English at the Université de Tours and the Université de Provence in France.After teaching for several years she relocated to the Vendômois region of France to begin researching Du Maurier family history. She has had published several articles on the family in French translation, followed by the book Sur les pas de Daphne Du Maurier; Au pays des souffleurs de verre (2010), with an Introduction by Daphne Du Maurier’s daughter. In 2016 she contributed a chapter to George Du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic: Beyond Svengali (Routledge).