![]() above all having tea in Jesus College with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, the famous "Q", whose home was in Fowey and who had heard that the family had bought the old Swiss Cottage. Upbringing, education and relationships with parentsÄaphne du Maurier first met Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in Cambridge in 1926 when the actress Viola Tree, who was touring in The Country Wife, invited her to Cambridge where du Maurier wrote in her diary that: This study examines the friendship between the four women, why it endured into their old age and what they had in common, and how their lives reflected a struggle for freedom from parental control and the shackles of convention in their childhoods, towards being independent women in a modern world. Oenone Rashleigh came from a traditional, long-established, land-owning Cornish county family. Clara Coltman Rogers - Lady Vyvyan - was born in Queensland, Australia, qualified as a social worker in London and became a travel writer, undertaking intrepid journeys across the globe. ![]() Daphne du Maurier, daughter of actor/manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel Beaumont, came from a sophisticated, theatrical, largely urban and cosmopolitan background. Foy Quiller-Couch was the daughter of Cambridge professor and writer Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and lived the quiet life of a Victorian unmarried daughter at home in Fowey, Cornwall. ![]() They also had very different backgrounds. The friendship between Foy Quiller-Couch, Daphne du Maurier, Clara, Lady Vyvyan and Oenone Rashleigh at first seems surprising given the difference in their ages (Clara Vyvyan was born in 1885 Foy Quiller-Couch 1899 Daphne du Maurier 1907, and Oenone Rashleigh not until 1915). ![]()
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