![]() Today visitors can still dine and sleep at the inn. Reviewed as “perhaps the most accomplished historical romance ever written,” Jamaica Inn was later released as a film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Maureen O’Hara as heroine Mary Yellan and Charles Laughton as Sir Humphrey Pengallan. (It probably took its name from the latter.) Daphne’s vivid imagination soon put the inn into one of her most successful books, filled with smugglers, cutthroats, and, of course, forbidden love. Built in 1750 as a coaching house for travelers from Launceston to Bodmin, Jamaica Inn soon became the dropping-off point for contraband, including tea, tobacco, silk, and brandy. Lost for hours in mist and rain, they fell at midnight into a welcome hostelry, Jamaica Inn. One day in 1936, Daphne and a friend rode horses through the “dark, diabolical beauty” of nearby Bodmin Moor. ![]() The Slade family gave her the figurehead, and today it is mounted under the eaves of Ferryside. In 1931 popular romances were rather new, and reviewers were at a loss as to what to make of The Loving Spirit, but they generally reviewed it favorably. ![]() The Slade family gave her access to their family papers, and she turned them into her first book, a romantic novel. ![]() One day she saw a derelict schooner, Jane Slade, rotting away, its once-proud figurehead slipping into the mud. ![]()
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