The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories

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Doubleday, 1980 - Biography & Autobiography - 304 pages
An account of the conceptual and artistic development of Rebecca, personal recollections of people in her life, short stories not before published, and her poems.

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INTRODUCTION 37
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MEMORIES
10
The Rebecca Epilogue 23 3333
23
Copyright

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About the author (1980)

Daphne Du Maurier was born in London on May 13, 1907 and educated in Paris. In 1932, she married Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning. She began writing short stories of mystery and suspense for magazines in 1928, a collection of which appeared as The Apple Tree in 1952. Her first novel, The Loving Spirit, was published in 1931. Her tightly woven, highly suspenseful plots and her strong characters make her stories perfect for adaptation to film or television. Among her many novels that were made into successful films are Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938), Frenchman's Creek (1941), Hungry Hill (1943), My Cousin Rachel (1952), and The Scapegoat (1957). Her short story, The Birds (1953), was brought to the screen by director Alfred Hitchcock in a treatment that has become a classic horror-suspense film. She died on April 19, 1989 at the age of 81.

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