DDM
's playSeptember Tide began rehearsals with Gertrude Lawrence
in the title role as Stella.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
wrote a play about her relationship with Ellen, September Tide, which disguised the lesbian nature of that relationship. In it Gertrude Lawrence
(a performer celebrated for acting in Noël Coward
's plays) took...
Textual Features
Daphne Du Maurier
The apple tree in the title story (in England) becomes identified in the mind of its owner with his wife, plaintive and oppressed in life, who is now dead. He comes to hate the tree...
Fictionalization
Anna Leonowens
The story of AL
's life in Siam was romanticized in 1944 by Margaret Landon
in Anna and the King of Siam. This in turn spawned the Rodgers
and Hammerstein
Tony-winning musical The King...
