“Rebecca, always Rebecca. I should never be rid of Rebecca,” laments the second Mrs de Winter in Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 novel Rebecca. Mention the title to any bibliophile and they ...

Was du Maurier inspired by a real Rebecca figure—and if so, who was she? Though there’s still no consensus, biographers have singled out the most likely contenders. Born in 1907, Daphne du ...

Five years after Rebecca was published, Du Maurier realised her dream of living at Menabilly, after convincing the owners to lease it to her, but the entailed house would never be hers and indeed ...

She’s a lifelong fan of Daphne du Maurier’s novels, especially 1938’s Rebecca, with its British manor stuffed with secrets. De Rosnay’s enchantment fuels Manderley Forever: A Biography ...

JUSTINE PICARDIE’S “Daphne,” which focuses ... replicates -- but without “Rebecca’s” sturm und drang -- the situation of Du Maurier’s most celebrated novel; and this young woman ...

Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson in the 1940 film Rebecca Suspicion within Daphne du Maurier's own marriage fuelled the tense, macabre plot of Rebecca, says Matthew Dennison In 1937, Daphne du ...