![]() The servants have grown too fond of its late mistress and receive their new one coolly. ![]() The first signs of trouble in Paradise appear when they arrive at Maxim's elegant old Cornish estate, Manderley. Thus no one is more surprised than the shy little companion when Maxim not only seems attracted to her but impetuously proposes they wed there and then. ![]() Van Hopper, our young, unnamed heroine meets the much wealthier Maxim de Winter - a moody, inscrutable widower presumed still to be in deep mourning for his late wife, the beautiful Rebecca, tragically drowned in a boating accident. While working in Monte Carlo as the companion for the wealthy Mrs. de Winter's Opening Monologue from both film and novelĪ 1938 novel by English author Daphne du Maurier (who also wrote Jamaica Inn, and the story that became The Birds). ![]()
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