![]() ![]() ![]() The wives of army officers were expected to be accommodating, attractive and quiet. ![]() Tommy had been concerned about how a somewhat wayward Daphne would settle into life in the conservative and male-dominated world in which he had to uphold his authority. Daphne understood that Tommy took army life seriously but, as she wrote to her mother even before marriage, she couldn’t see the sense in it: the ‘bugles and khaki and people yelling all the time and saluting.’ To her it seemed a bit preposterous. At the age of thirty-two, he had been the youngest major in the army and he had a reputation for setting the highest standards of efficiency in the Brigade of Guards. They had a daughter, Tessa and they were happy, but their relationship was not without difficulties.Ĭharming and affable, Tommy was an ex-war hero, once voted the most handsome bachelor in London. ![]() When Daphne du Maurier began writing Jamaica Inn at the age of twenty-nine, she was almost four years into her marriage with Tommy ‘Boy’ Browning. ![]()
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