Rebecca (novel) glamorous, dark-haired Jan Ricardo. The suspicion that Tommy remained attracted to Ricardo haunted Daphne." In "The Rebecca Notebook" of 1981, du Maurier "'remembered' Rebecca's gestation … Seeds began to drop. A beautiful home... a first wife... jealousy, a wreck, perhaps at sea, near to the house... But something terrible would have to happen, I did not know what..." She wrote in her notes prior to writing: 'I want to build up the character of the first [wife] in the mind of the second... until wife 2 is haunted day and night... a tragedy is looming very close and CRASH! BANG!
1997 du Maurier Open 1997. Chris Woodruff and Monica Seles won the singles titles. It was Seles' first Tier I title of the year and her seventh overall. It was her third consecutive title at the event after winning in 1995 and 1996. Chris Woodruff defeated Gustavo Kuerten 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 Monica Seles defeated Anke Huber 6–2, 6–4 Mahesh Bhupathi / Leander Paes defeated Sébastien Lareau / Alex O'Brien 7–6, 6–3 Yayuk Basuki / Caroline Vis defeated Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf 3–6, 7–5, 6–4 1997 du Maurier Open The 1997 Canadian Open (also known as the "du Maurier Open" for sponsorship reasons) was