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Edwina Levin MacDonald, originally the plaintiff, has died since the commencement of the action and her ancillary administrator has been substituted. In her lifetime she wrote "I Planned to Murder My Husband", a confession story published in this country in Hearst's International Magazine of October, 1924.
Macdonald, Edwina Levin was born on May 10, 1878 in Campti, Louisiana, United States. Daughter of Andrew Jackson and Minerva (Dupree) Dickerson.
August 18, 1944. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by Edwina Levin MacDonald against Daphne Du Maurier and others for infringement of a magazine story and a book written by plaintiff and protected by copyright.
The family of Edwina Levin MacDonald brought a lawsuit and plagiarism charges against Daphne du Maurier, her American publisher, Doubleday, and David O. Selznick’s organisation, which produced the film Rebecca in 1940.
Edwina Levin MacDonald, originally the plaintiff, has died since the commencement of the action and her ancillary administrator has been substituted. In her lifetime she wrote "I Planned to Murder My Husband", a confession story published in this country in Hearst's International Magazine of October, 1924.
Books. Blind Windows. Edwina Levin MacDonald. Macaulay Company, 1927 - 383 pages. Preview this book ».
There are other genre novels but Rebecca is unique. None of DuMaurier’s [sic] other books are as good as this one” (message 36). To this, “Susan” wholeheartedly assented: “I totally agree, Rebecca is in a category all by itself” (message 53).
