Clara Coltman Vyvyan (née Rogers; 1885 – 1 March 1976) was an Australian-born travel writer.
[1] In 1887 the family returned to live in Cornwall, although they continued to spend 6 months a year in Queensland; Vyvyan and her sister were educated by a governess at home.
Her close friend Daphne du Maurier used the house and gardens as settings for her novels Frenchman's Creek and Rebecca.
[1][4] Both lovers of travel and the great outdoors, Vyvyan set off on a three month walk with du Maurier in 1952 along the Rhône river in France.
Annabel Abbs retraced the pair's steps 70 years later in her book, Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women (Two Roads, 2021).