Knight had travelled such a journey with the Devil Sintram, And His Companions where a dispirited Illustration from a book read long ago in childhood, Side, we led the horses from the slippery track, and "Bogs, quarries, brooks, boulders, hell on every Place, Daphne du Maurier recalls the circumstances of their hazardous expedition in Vanishing Cornwall . This striking landscape is characterized by itsĪreas of marshland, its few stunted trees and the rockyįormations known as tors. Sudden darkness, surrounded by the thick fog of the bleakīodrnin Moor is a wild strech of moorland extending fromĭartmoor to the Land’s End peninsula and the isles of Moors she and her friend Foy Quiller-Couch got lost in Yet, Jamaica Inn, the inn which inspired the subject of herīook, was discovered by chance. Walker, Daphne du Maurier knew every inch of the county. Knowledge of the area was unquestionable. Presenting Cornwall’s landscape and history, "Cornish" novel, Daphne du Maurier obviously excels in Jamaica Inn, set in Cornwall, exemplifies Daphne du C Daphne du Maurier’s rewriting of Cornwall
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