Rebecca (novel) his deceased wife, Rebecca. The supernatural reaction of the portrait doesn't convince him and so he places her in a cupboard. The 1970 Parallel Time storyline of the Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" was heavily inspired by "Rebecca" including the costume ball scene. Also the second "Dark Shadows" motion picture, "Night of Dark Shadows" took inspiration from the novel including a mention by Kate Jackson's character who hopes the housekeeper is not like Mrs. Danvers The fifth episode of the second series of "That Mitchell and Webb Look" contains an extended sketch parodying the 1940 film, in which Rebecca is
Sally Beauman Sunday Telegraph Magazine". She worked as an investigative journalist, interviewer and critic for many leading publications in Britain and the US, including "The New Yorker". It was an article about the work of Daphne du Maurier in this magazine that eventually led to her writing "Rebecca's Tale", her companion novel to du Maurier's "Rebecca". She wrote an early appreciation of Monique Wittig's second novel, "Les Guérillères", in "The New York Times Book Review". The book was published in France in the wake of the 1968 upheavals, but was not available to English readers until the 1971 translation. Beauman's first work