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Notes

¹Most notable amongst these are, of course, Alfred Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939), Rebecca (1940) and The Birds (1963), and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973).

²For more on the collection of du Maurier papers held at the University of Exeter, see Charlotte Berry and Jessica Gardner, ‘Who I Am: Adventures in the du Maurier Family Archive’, in Helen Taylor (ed.), The Daphne du Maurier Companion, London: Virago 2007.

³These newly commissioned introductions are published together in Helen Taylor (ed.), The Daphne du Maurier Companion (2007).

⁴Ella Westland, Reading Daphne: A Guide to the Writing of Daphne du Maurier for Readers and Book Groups, Truro: Truran 2007.

⁵Richard Kelly, Daphne du Maurier, Boston: Twayne 1987, pp. 140–2.

⁶Margaret Forster, Daphne du Maurier, London: Chatto and Windus 1993.

⁷Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars, London: Routledge 1991, pp. 164, 166. See also Alison Light, ‘“Returning to Manderley”: Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class’, Feminist Review 16, 1984, pp. 7–25.

⁸Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik, Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination, London: Macmillan 1998, p. 188.

⁹Nina Auerbach, Daphne du Maurier: Haunted Heiress, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1999, pp. 14, 17, 18.

¹⁰For a detailed bibliography of du Maurier scholarship and adaptation see Sunie Fletcher, ‘Further Reading and Filmography’, in Helen Taylor (ed.), The Daphne du Maurier Companion (2007).