7/5/2023 0 Comments Lady Dona by Daphne du Maurier![]() ![]() ![]() Among her most famous works are “Jamaica Inn”, the stories “The Birds” (the main inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s movie having the same name ), “My cousin Rachel”, “Frenchman’s Creek”. Columb is suffering from no-identity-itis, a malady that a lot of women suffered from who wanted to rebel by the fact that they weren’t allowed to be anything else but a mother and wife. Thus, together with her two children (Henriette and James, the youngest for whom the mother has a guilty preference) and their nanny, she will move to the country, in Helford, a village located by the sea, in the beautiful but abandoned mansion owned by the family Navron. It was sold in 3,000,000 copies between 1938 (the year of publication) and 1965 and it was awarded with the National Book Award in the U.S., in 1965. Feeling suffocated by London society, Dona decides to break the conventional barriers of this false and shallow world. The author’s best-known novel is “Rebecca”, which was repeatedly adapted for stage and for movies. She also wrote historical fiction, plays and a travel guide ( “Vanishing Cornwall”, 1967). Born in 1907 in London, Daphne du Maurier made her debut at the age of only 25 with the novel “The Loving Spirit” followed by a series of mostly romantic stories, set in Cornwell, where the writer had settled. Daphne du Maurier is a British novelist and playwright, coming from a family with an artistic tradition – her grandfather, George du Maurier, being a writer, and her father and mother, Gerald du Maurier, respectively Muriel Beaumont, both being actors. ![]()
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