25/08/2018
BBC Radio Cornwall has reported that one of the Celtic peninsula's most beloved writers Daphne Du Maurier is now understood to have been bisexual. She enjoyed a relationship with the wife of the DoubleDay Book Publisher. Doubleday Books, of course, is still going strong. Du Maurier, who died in 1989 wrote in a code for her dalliances with men and women, and this has only come to light in the decades following her death. Although her offspring have denied any truth in the claim that she was bisexual, Du Maurier archivists connected with the Museum service now feel confident in their decoding of the private letters that the novelist and playwright penned. Du Maurier's works remain in print and are often moody, with a hint of the supernatural, as befits the magical landscape of Cornwall in which they are set. It is perhaps of note that Du Maurier was politically active in a small party called Mebyon Kernow, which still exists, and which advocated a kind of rural socialist ecology deeply influenced by hippie philosophy and Welsh independence campaigns.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jbs7t
