Much of her time was spent in Menabilly, a manor house in Cornwall that was the inspiration for Manderley, the location of her most famous novel,
Rebecca. Du Maurier's earliest published works, articles and short stories, appeared primarily in women's magazines. She published her first novel,
The Loving Spirit, in 1931. That work was followed by a number of novels and several collections of short stories, the first of which,
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Some Stories, appeared in 1952. She died in 1989 at the age of eighty-one.
Major Works
In her long career as a writer du Maurier produced nineteen novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays, and other writings. According to critics, most of her fiction can be classified as either cloak-and-dagger romances or Gothic novels. Like her acknowledged master, Robert Louis Stevenson, du Maurier wrote fantasies involving pirates, smuggling, and ladies in distress. Yet du Maurier preferred to be thought of as an author of mystery and suspense. Rebecca is the story of a woman who feels a sense of competition with her husband's first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances.
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