Gerald: A Portrait (Virago Modern Classics)

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Angela Scanlon breaks her silence on her 'premature' Strictly Come Dancing exit as she admits she can't stop crying: 'Feels like it's been cut short' The late nineteenth-century novelist George Gissing read the "notorious" novel in May 1896 with "scant satisfaction". [12] Trilby inspired Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910) in part. [13] It was also known for introducing the phrase "in the altogether" (meaning "completely unclothed") and the term " Svengali" for a man with dominating powers over a (generally female) protégée, as well as indirectly inspiring the name of the trilby hat, originally worn on stage by the lead actress in the play based on the novel.

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du Maurier.org. "Not After Midnight". Dumaurier.org. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008 . Retrieved 26 February 2013. Vanessa Bauer oozes elegance in a baby pink gown as she joins Hollywood's finest A-listers including Timothee Chalamet and Rowan Atkinson at the Wonka afterparty And now, a new film version premieres tomorrow on Netflix, starring Hollywood's Armie Hammer as Maxim, the owner of Manderley, Downton Abbey's Lily James as the second Mrs de Winter (haunted and undermined by the late Rebecca) and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers, Manderley's sinister housekeeper. Happy Holidays! The ultimate festive films: From the highest rated gems on Rotten Tomatoes to the biggest box office hit

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Were these 'muddled troubles' she mentioned evidence of lesbianism? Daphne's official biographer, Margaret Forster, chose to believe they were. I think not. Georgia Toffolo cringes at how many PDA photos she has posted with new Brewdog CEO boyfriend James Watt since announcing romance Amy Dowden reveals she doesn't want 'looks of pity' when she's seen with her headscarf on as she poses without her wig in striking photoshoot His middle daughter Daphne refused to attend his funeral [1] but wrote a biography of him – Gerald: A Portrait– which was published soon after his death. The Daphne du Maurier Companion, edited by Helen Taylor, includes Taylor's claims that du Maurier confessed to her in 1965 that she had had an incestuous relationship with her father and that he had been a violent alcoholic. [18]

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For the first time in her life, she wrote despairing letters that alarmed her friends, so utterly unlike her did they sound. Her severe depressive illness grew worse in her final years and she began refusing food. The Apple Tree (1952); entitled Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953) in the US, with two additional stories; later republished as The Birds and Other Stories