![]() ![]() The novel’s iconic opening line - “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” 1 – was born out of du Maurier’s own preoccupation with Menabilly, a country house in Cornwall, which was later the inspiration for Manderley in Rebecca. Her homesickness and her resignation about her wifely duties, together with a guilty sense of her own ineptness, were elements she included in her Gothic romance Rebecca. Du Maurier began writing it at a difficult point in her life: it was only a few years after the death of her adored father, she was pregnant with her second child and her husband, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been posted with his battalion. It has never gone out of print and is one of the great international bestsellers. Her novel Rebecca, published in 1938, was probably her most famous novel. ![]() Unaffected by the literary fashions of her days, she wrote simple narratives that appealed to the reader’s love of adventure, fantasy, sensuality and mystery. Comparison Between the Novel and the Filmĭaphne du Maurier is widely known for her Gothic novels and short stories. Characterisation of the Main Characters and Reference to Social Classes and the Political Subtextĥ. ![]()
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