Example Of Rebecca Book Report

Madison Mogg

May 2, 2018

Classical Author Autobiography

I was born on May 13, 1907, in London, England. I was the middle of three daughters of my father, the prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and my mother, actress Muriel Beaumont. I was born into a very theatrical family that was very popular during the time period that in 1929 my father leased our family name to a tobacco company. I had a very strong bond with my father who would later be the inspiration for one of my books. During my adolescence, I began wishing I was born a boy. I might of started believing that because my father was very disappointed for a point in time due to the fact there was no male heir to carry on the du Maurier name or all the gender inequality that

I wanted to be independent from my family’s inheritance and wanted to have a real sense of freedom and liberation from the endless social pressures that came with the family name. So, I holed myself up in a vacation house in Cornwall, England which my family bought a few years earlier and began writing my first novel in late, October of 1929. I had written a collection of short stories before titled The Seekers in 1925, but never a novel before. I was able to complete the book called The Loving Spirit and had become a mini-best seller in

The noble Maxim is recently widowed and the two fall in love and are soon married. Now the second Mrs. De Winter, the young woman returns with Maxim to his family mansion, Manderley, in the south of England. Once there, however, the heroine of the novel finds that she is forever in the shadow of the first wife, Rebecca, and that the spiteful housekeeper, Ms. Danvers, wants only to protect the memory of the dead woman. Jealousy overcomes the new mistress of the house, soon consuming every thought she has. She soon fears that the memories of Rebecca will drive her and Maxim