DDM
met Ellen Doubleday
, the wife of her American publisher, Nelson Doubleday
, and fell in love with her.
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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Textual Production
Margaret Forster
MF
discussed her experience in writing about Du Maurier in an essay entitled Rebecca's Ghost. She says she did not choose her subject; the subject chose her. She was impelled to re-read Rebecca at...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Daphne Du Maurier
DDM
based this work, originally entitled Mother, on her feelings for Ellen Doubleday
, with whom she had fallen in love.The play cleverly disguises its origins: it treats the theme of forbidden love through...
