Angela du Maurier was a novelist who had eleven books published in total, including two volumes of autobiography, It's Only the Sister (1951) and Old Maids Remember.

The eldest of three daughters of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont

Muriel Beaumont

Muriel Beaumont, Lady du Maurier was an English stage actress. She was the wife of the actor Gerald du Maurier and mother of the writer Daphne du Maurier. She retired from the stage in 1910.-Biography:...

 (maternal niece of William Comyns Beaumont), she was born in St Pancras

St Pancras, London

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, London

London

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. Her grandfather was the author and Punch

Punch (magazine)

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 cartoonist George du Maurier

George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby. He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier...

, who created the character of Svengali

Svengali

Svengali is a fictional character of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby. Svengali "would either fawn or bully and could be grossly impertinent. He had a kind of cynical humour that was more offensive than amusing and always laughed at the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place...

 in the novel Trilby (novel)

Trilby (novel)

Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Published serially in Harper's Monthly in 1894, it was published in book form in 1895 and sold 200,000 copies in the United...

 . Although three years older than her better known sister Daphne

Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBE was a British author and playwright.Many of her works have been adapted into films, including the novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn and the short stories "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now". The first three were directed by Alfred Hitchcock.Her elder sister was...

, she outlived her by thirteen years.

Originally aspiring to follow the family tradition of acting, she planned to be an actress and spent two seasons on the stage. She played Wendy Darling

Wendy Darling

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 alongside both Gladys Cooper

Gladys Cooper

Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television....

 and Dorothy Dickson

Dorothy Dickson

Dorothy Dickson , was an American-born, London-based theater actress and singer.-Biography:Dickson is known mostly for her rendition of the Jerome Kern song "Look for the Silver Lining". She was also a member of the Ziegfeld Follies and made many appearances in New York and abroad...

 as Peter Pan

Peter Pan

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. She worked on the land in Cornwall during the war and travelled extensively in Europe. She later turned to writing, with the release of her earlier works coinciding with the publication of her sister's Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her works of fiction include The Road to Leenane, Pilgrims by the Way, The Perplexed Heart, Reveille and Treveryan. She lived at Ferryside, the family house in Cornwall, for most of her life. She died in Wandsworth

London Borough of Wandsworth

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, London, aged 97.

According to the British Library Angela Du Maurier wrote the following

• 1939 The Perplexed Heart
• 1940 The Spinning Wheel
• 1941 The Little Less
• 1942 Treveryan
• 1946 Lawrence Vane A novel
• 1948 Birkinshaw and other stories
• 1950 Reveille
• 1951 It's only the Sister An autobiography
• 1952 Shallow Waters
• 1963 The Road to Leenane
• 1965 Old Maids Remember, Autobiography
• 1967 Pilgrims by the way
• 1969 The frailty of nature
• 1979 S is for sin