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'Jilly Cooper's manners were impeccable. Every time I wrote anything about her over the years, a handwritten card arrived days later, thanking me warmly'

Jilly Cooper combined cultured sensibility with modesty and humour while producing numerous popular fiction and non-fiction works.

fromSlate Magazine

2 weeks ago

She Was One of Literature's Most Misunderstood Writers. A New Book Corrects the Record.

Daphne du Maurier wrote 17 novels, a few plays, and numerous short stories, but she's known chiefly for the narrative of the unnamed second Mrs. de Winter, a woman so overshadowed by her husband's late first wife that her own story is titled after her predecessor. True, some are aware that two of du Maurier's short stories, "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now," were adapted as great films by Alfred Hitchcock and Nicolas Roeg, respectively.

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'Jilly Cooper's manners were impeccable. Every time I wrote anything about her over the years, a handwritten card arrived days later, thanking me warmly'

She Was One of Literature's Most Misunderstood Writers. A New Book Corrects the Record.

#literary-reputation
#literary-reputation