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Helford, but when her mother dies she sets off to live with her mothers She has lived all her life in the tranquil village of The central character of Jamaica Inn is Mary Yellen a young woman of During that stay at Jamaica Inn DaphneĪlso met and talked to the parson from the nearby church at Altarnun. Time in a derelict cottage on the moor but were eventually led back to Were lost in bad weather conditions and apparently sheltered for some Taken place some years previously when Daphne and her friend Foy QuillerĬouch (daughter of the famous writer and scholar Sir Arthur QuillerĬouch) were staying at Jamaica Inn and went riding on Bodmin Moor. The storyline itself was brewed from an outing that had Treasure Island and she clearly wanted to write an adventure story in Had read avidly boys adventure stories such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s

The Inspiration for Jamaica Inn was two fold. Victor Gollancz who published all herįuture novels published Jamaica Inn in January 1936. In Cornwall as much as possible but most of Jamaica Inn was written inįrimley where Tommy was based. Living the army life with her soldier husband Fredrick Browning, knownĪs Boy or Tommy, and her first daughter Tessa. Which had been published by Victor Gollancz. Since the publication of A Progress of Julius her father had died and she had written his biography entitled Gerald - A Portrait,

Review of Jamaica Inn - Ann WillmoreDaphne du Maurier started writing her fourth novel, Jamaica Inn, in 1935.