Word: maurier
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...United Kingdom now have an obligatory, weekly religious instruction period. Called the Padre's Hour, it was planned by Army chaplains at the behest of handsome, youngish Major General Frederick Arthur Montague ("Boy") Browning, commander of Britain's airborne troops, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
...Homestead steelworkers' strike of 1892 inspired Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men. And Du Maurier's romantic novel sensation of 1894 brought forth...
...Around 1,000,000: Stevenson's Treasure Island; Du Maurier's Trilby; E. N. Westcott's David Harum; John Fox Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come; Florence Barclay's The Rosary; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; Pollyanna; The Calling of Dan Matthews; E. M. Hull's The Sheik; America's Part in the World War, by R. J. Beamish and F. A. March, which was published...
...long run she is saved by the most classic of gongs: the frightened crying, in the night, of one of her children. But not before Miss du Maurier has squeezed the escapade dry in scene after well-constructed scene...
Frying more or less in public, since the New York Times divulged it two months ago, is a quarrel between Miss du Maurier's publishers and the Brazilian novelist, Carolina Nabuco,* who points out what seem to her, and to irate Brazilian literary circles, many remarkable similarities between her own novel, A Sucesora, and the more recent Rebecca. In London Miss du Maurier denies ever having heard either of A Sucesora or its author, prior to the accusation. Her publishers point out that "the sad-second-wife setup" (framework of both novels) is as old as the Book...