![]() ![]() The latter remains a melodramatic masterpiece, and faithful to the novel that Angela Carter once said, "shamelessly reduplicated the plot of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre".ĭu Maurier admired Hitchcock's adaptation of Rebecca, but didn't like what he did with The Birds – not surprising given how much he altered the story. In 1939, he directed Jamaica Inn, followed a year later by Rebecca. ![]() And yet Hitchcock is the reason most people know her work. ![]() It's something that's often said (erroneously) about Du Maurier, who is a far more complex and darker writer than a reductive genre label might suggest. Despite adapting two of her novels and one short story, the director thought of her not just as a “romantic novelist”, but as a writer who wasn’t the heavyweight equal of her male contemporaries. Alfred Hitchcock once described British writer Daphne du Maurier as belonging to “a whole school of feminine literature”. ![]()
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