![]() The Cornish MoorsĪs du Maurier explains in Vanishing Cornwall, most of the backbone of Cornwall consists of moorlands, from the source of the Tamar River in the north to the south-west, all the way to Penwith and the claw that is Land’s End. In November 1930, he suggested that she and his daughter Foy should go on a horse riding expedition on Bodmin Moor and spend a few nights at a wayside hostelry called Jamaica Inn. ![]() He was a Cornish writer and academic and something of a mentor to Daphne. Q, as he was known, lived in Fowey, across the water from her Bodinnick home Ferryside. She owed her first sight of this now famous inn to a suggestion by her friend Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. In her early twenties, Daphne du Maurier had an eerie experience on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor, which gave her the bones for Jamaica Inn, one of her most popular novels. ![]()
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