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- Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (/ duː ˈmɒrieɪ /; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist.
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Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, [1] DBE (/ duː ˈmɒrieɪ /; 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright. Her parents were actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, actress Muriel Beaumont. Her grandfather George du Maurier was a writer and cartoonist.
Daphne du Maurier (born May 13, 1907, London, England—died April 19, 1989, Par, Cornwall) was an English novelist and playwright, daughter of actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier, best known for her novel Rebecca (1938).
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Jul 2, 2022 · Dame Daphne du Maurier, the English novelist who died in 1989, was fascinated by her French heritage. The author of Rebecca and Jamaica Inn had been brought up on tales of an...
- Rebecca Was First Published in 1938 and Has Never Gone Out of Print.
- The Heroine of Rebecca, Mrs de Winter, Remains Unnamed throughout.
- Daphne Du Maurier Struggled with Writer’s Block While Writing Rebecca.
- Rebecca Has Been Celebrated as An Important Piece of Feminist Literature.
- Rebecca’s Manderley Was Inspired by Two Real-Life Estates.
- Rebecca Has Been Adapted to A Variety of Media.
Since it was published in 1938, Rebecca has never gone out of print [PDF], selling 2.8 million copies between 1938 and 1965. Over time, the novel has transformed from bestseller to cultural classic, with many stage and screen adaptations, including an Oscar-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, and a 1993 book sequel by Susan Hill titled Mrs de...
Rebecca, after whom the novel is named, is dead when the story begins. She is brought to life via the impressions and memories other characters have of her and her lingering presence in Maxim de Winter's estate, Manderley, via her scent, her handwriting in books, and the carefully preserved clothes that remain in her wardrobe. Mostly, we see her th...
Du Maurier struggled with a serious case of writer’s block when she began writing Rebecca. She discarded the first 50 pages of an early draft, telling her publisher: "The first 15,000 words I tore up in disgust and this literary miscarriage has cast me down."
Initially marketed as a romance novel with Rebecca as the villainous, menacing wife, feminist interpretations of du Maurier’s novel now see it as a critique of gender power dynamics and a sexist society’s fear of powerful women. Some feminist criticssuggest du Maurier intended for Maxim de Winter to be the real villain—the controlling husband who n...
The secretive mansion which lends the novel its famous opening line, “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again," was partly inspired by Milton Hall [PDF], an estate near Cambridge that du Maurier spent time at as a child. When she wrote Rebecca nearly 20 years later, du Maurier told Milton Hall's owner that she based Manderley's interiors on h...
Rebeccahad been adapted for film several times, but the best-known adaptation is Hitchcock’s 1940 film of the same name. It’s also been adapted to television a number of times, as a radio play, and an opera.
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- April 19, 1989
- May 13, 1907
- Rebecca.
- My Cousin Rachel.
- Jamaica Inn.
- Frenchman's Creek.
'A new star in the literary firmament – Daphne du Maurier, second daughter of Sir Gerald and Lady du Maurier whose first novel The Loving Spirit, is a remarkably mature piece of writing for so young an author'.
Jul 6, 2017 · The writer Daphne du Maurier in 1936. By Parul Sehgal. July 6, 2017. In 1937 an Englishwoman — bright and bored and drowning in children — sat down and sketched out a story. “Very roughly,...
