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) as "a sinister tale about a woman who marries a widower...Psychological and rather macabre." Some commentators have noted parallels with Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre". Another of du Maurier's works, "Jamaica Inn," is also linked to one of the Brontë sisters' works, Emily's "Wuthering Heights". Du Maurier commented publicly in her lifetime that the book was based on her own memories of Menabilly and Cornwall, as well as her relationship with her father. While du Maurier "categorised "Rebecca" as a study in jealousy... she admitted its origins in her own life to few." Her husband had been "engaged before – to