de Winter comes into her own, becoming her own woman and more self-possessed when she is able to shake off the metaphorical ghost of Rebecca.
de Winter’s journey and is sucked in by her new marriage to the illusory and charismatic Maxim de Winter. She’s anxious and jealous, but these are never portrayed as character flaws but instead a mere indication of what makes her realistic. Du Maurier’s intrepid heroine has captivated audiences since the ’30s because she is fantastically and unabashedly human. Murder and intrigue and class discrepancies plague the marriage of a young woman known only as the second Mrs. While there isn’t overt supernatural happenings at work, the book is steeped in the idea of ghostly presences and how a person’s memory can taint all around them. It’s a creeping gothic horror that would make Charlotte and Emily Bronte exceedingly proud. Rebecca is without a doubt du Maurier’s most successful work, and there is good reason for this. Her career was impressive and prolific, and she used her skills to explore many different subjects and styles of writing. She remained active in her writing up until her death in 1989, which was also the year the non-fiction book Enchanted Cornwall was published. While she will forever be best known for the sumptuous novel of power, jealousy, and inequality, Rebecca, her writing went far beyond just one exemplary novel.
Some of her non-fiction work centered around her own family and family history. She had a prolific bibliography that included novels, short stories, plays, and biographies, even one that chronicled the life of the Bronte sisters’ brother Branwell. French edition cover of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.Īs far as writing, in addition to her stellar works of gothic horror, du Maurier was a master of non-fiction, as well as fiction. While du Maurier’s family ties did help her get a proverbial foot up in her writing career, she took her writing seriously and was noted as being extremely devoted to her craft and even wrote extensively about how her childhood shaped her into the writer she became. What’s for certain is that the du Maurier family’s creative streak was a strong one. Her sisters also became a writer and a painter respectively. It’s no shock that du Maurier herself followed in their footsteps to become a creative. Her grandfather George du Maurier wrote the novel Trilby, and her parents Sir Gerald du Maurier and Muriel Beaumont were accomplished thespians.
Du Maurier was a brilliant mistress of the macabre who descended from authors and actors.
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