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Daphne: A Novel
Daphne A Novel
Author: Justine Picardie
A haunting novel that illuminates the true story of Daphne du Maurier’s fascination with the Brontės: a tale of madness, theft, romance, and literary archaeology. — Drawing on Justine Picardie’s own extensive research into Daphne du Maurier’s obsession with the Brontės and the scandal that has haunted the Brontė estate, Daphn...  more » is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession; of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures; of love lost and love found; of the way into imaginary worlds, and the way out again. Written in three entwined parts, the novel follows Daphne du Maurier herself, the beautiful, tomboyish, passionate author of the enormously popular Gothic novel Rebecca, at fifty and on the verge of madness; John Alexander Symington, eminent editor and curator of the Brontės’ manuscripts, who by 1957 had been dismissed from the Brontė Parsonage Museum in disgrace, and who became Daphne’s correspondent; and a nameless modern researcher on the trail of Daphne, Rebecca, Alexander Symington, and the Brontės. Haunting and gorgeously written, Daphne is a breathtaking novel that finally tells, in the most imaginative of ways, what Brontė biographer Juliet Barker has called “the last great untold Brontė story—and perhaps the most intriguing.”
ISBN-13: 9781596913417
ISBN-10: 159691341X
Publication Date: 8/5/2008
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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