![]() ![]() An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the stmggle to find her identity." Rebecca, published in 1938, is still likened to Jane Eyre, and this may have led readers and critics to underestimate its contribution to the gothic tradition, placing as it does the first Mrs de Winter in the wake of the first Mrs Rochester and conflating both figures of otherness. The publisher’s blurb of the latest edition of Rebecca reads as follows: "ot since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. Romantic ghosting in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca ![]()
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