What’s in a Name?: The Power of Names in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
From the unseen Rebecca to the unnamed narrator
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4 min readOct 2, 2023
What’s in a name? Shakespeare asks. Everything, if Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 Gothic novel is to be believed.
In the bestseller, which celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2023 and has never gone out of print, we are introduced to a woman whose…