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The novelist and poet discuss the uncanny, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and the power of poetry to speak for a community.
16. Rebecca drowned in the cove near the house. When her husband remarries, her staunchest admirer is determined to make his new wife feel unwelcome. Who is that admirer? "Rebecca," by Daphne du ...
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English author and playwright. Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories have been described as ...
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” begins both Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 best-seller “ Rebecca ” and nearly every adaptation of the Gothic novel that has followed, including ...
16. Rebecca drowned in the cove near the house. When her husband remarries, her staunchest admirer is determined to make his new wife feel unwelcome. Who is that admirer? "Rebecca," by Daphne du ...
Kneehigh, the Cornish company behind West End productions Brief Encounter and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, are adapting Daphne Du Maurier's classic Rebecca for a UK tour. Opening next month, the ...
In Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), a change in bird behaviour is linked to the impact of technological developments after the second world war.
The term got its name from the 1938 novel Rebecca by author Daphne du Maurier which tells the story of the second spouse of a widower whose life is tormented by the idea that they will never be ...