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Rebecca Lesson Plan

Introduction to Rebecca

Rebecca was written by Daphne Du Maurier in the summer of 1937. She had already achieved literary acclaim by this point. The novel was inspired by her real-life circumstances. She had to leave England because of her husband’s work with the military. Du Maurier left her two daughters in England with a nanny and went with her husband to Egypt. While she was in Egypt, she was unhappy and homesick and she began to write this novel about a couple that is in a kind of self-imposed exile away from the place they call home.

Rebecca tells the story of an unnamed narrator who meets an enigmatic older man on a trip to Monte Carlo. After a relatively short period of time, he proposes and brings...

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