![]() That her carefully researched biography had been intended to rescue Branwell Brontë from obscurity made its lack of sales all the more maddening. was bored by the thought of it, and he never made any effort to push it after it was published.' I don't think I had any bad reviews for my Branwell, but right from the start I know old V.G. This failure continued to be a source of disappointment to du Maurier: in a letter to her friend, Oriel Malet, written in October 1962, she referred to the painfulness of seeing a book that 'just gets wiped off and forgotten, no matter how good the reviews. ![]() ![]() When it came out in 1960, her publisher, Victor Gollancz, printed eight thousand copies-far less than was usual for his best-selling author and though it received several good reviews (including one from Muriel Spark in the Daily Telegraph), the biography did not sell well, perhaps because it was so different to her more popular novels and family memoirs. The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë has always been the least successful of Daphne du Maurier's books in commercial terms yet it remains as fascinating as the best of her work. ![]()
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