When Daphne du Maurier died at age 81 in 1989 at her home in her beloved Cornwall, England, obituary writers around the world sharpened their pencils. A writer in the London Times called her "one of the most popular novelists in the English-speaking worl...
Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for forty years, twenty-five of them in Menabilly, a seventeenth-century house that she described as the most beautiful she had ever seen. Cornwall, a region of mystery and superstition, the home of legendary figures s...
In a writing career that spanned over four decades and brought her international renown, Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) published in a number of different genres. Among her most popular works were those that spun tales of mystery, suspense, and drama, inc...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Married to a man who had previously been engaged to a beautiful socialite, Daphne du Maurier was acquainted with the feelings of jealousy aroused by a mate's former love. Although her own marriage did not include the darker...
Rebecca is a novel by British author Daphne du Maurier. It was published in 1938 and is considered to be one of her best works. It was partially inspired by Jane Eyre.[1][2] Much of the novel was written while she was staying at the Forest Park Hotel in...
In the final months of Rebecca Riley's life, a school nurse said the little girl was so weak she was like a "floppy doll."The preschool principal had to help Rebecca off the bus because the 4-year-old was shaking so badly.And a pharmacist complained that Rebecca's...
A mother charged with killing her 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs now believes her daughter was probably misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, she said in her first interview since her arrest.Carolyn Riley said she believed a psychiatrist's diagnosis of her daughter, Rebecca, but...
A mother charged with killing her 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs now believes her daughter was probably misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, she said in her first interview since her arrest.Carolyn Riley said she believed a psychiatrist's diagnosis of her daughter, Rebecca, but...
In the thirties, Miss du Maurier was a kind of poor woman's Charlotte Brontë. Her Rebecca, whatever one's opinions of its ultimate merits, was a tour de force. In its own way and century, it has achieved a position in English Literature comparable to "Monk" Lewis's The Bleeding Nun or Mrs. Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho. To-day Miss du Maurier the novelist is Miss Blurb's favourite Old Girl whose published appearances are heralded with the brouhaha o...
Daphne du Maurier has a talent for mystification. In Rebecca she wrote of a heroine we never saw in the flesh but whose spell was woven through every page. In My Cousin Rachel … she tells the story of an Italian widow who captivates two English bachelors, Ambrose Ashley, the elder, whom she married and subdues in Italy, and Philip, his cousin and heir, whom she comes to live with in Cornwall after Ambrose's mysterious death. (pp. 78-9) Miss du Maurier is a caster of spells, and the first she c...
This essay is about the symbolic importance of a woman's name in literature, due to the British class system. Provides literary criticism on "Rebecca" written by Daphne du Maurier.
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