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
Rebecca (novel) sea" is also in metrical form; almost but not quite an anapestic tetrameter. Shortly after "Rebecca" was published in Brazil, critic Álvaro Lins pointed out many resemblances between du Maurier's book and the work of Brazilian writer Carolina Nabuco. Nabuco's "A Sucessora" ("The Successor") has a main plot similar to "Rebecca", for example a young woman marrying a widower and the strange presence of the first wife – plot features also shared with the far older "Jane Eyre". Nina Auerbach alleged in her book, "Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress", that du Maurier read the Brazilian book when the first drafts