#Daphne duMaurier

[moonmausoleum]

The History and Hauntings of Jamaica Inn 

In the outskirts of the moors in Cornwall with a dark history of smugglers and gothic romances. The Jamaica Inn is a perfect setting for a british ghost story, and according to the legends, it has many. 

In the outskirts of the moors in Cornwall with a dark history of smugglers and gothic romances. The Jamaica Inn is a perfect setting for a british ghost story, and according to the legends, it has many.  “Dead men tell no tales, Mary.”― Daphne duMaurier, Jamaica Inn Located in the rugged landscape of Cornwall, England, Jamaica Inn is said to be one of the most haunted places in Britain. Its…

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#1700s #child ghost #daphne dumaurier #england #featured #female ghost #haunted bar #haunted hotel #jamaica inn #male ghost #moor #murder #UK

[darkangelofmists]

“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”

― Daphne duMaurier

#Daphne duMaurier #quotes #writing

[thegirlwhorunsforthetrain]

Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier

Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier

“I’m not shy, I just hate you. That’s all,” Continue reading Untitled

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#1920s #author #Cornwall #Daphne DuMaurier #memoir #review #youth

[jeezypetes]

I listened to 120 audiobooks in 2023 and these were my 9 faves :)

#fave novels that i read for the first time i mean #didn’t listen to nearly as many nonfic. and if i counted my daphne dumaurier rereads my cousin rachel would be in the top 10 every year

[shakespearesdaughters]

Author recs??

To name a few wonderful authors:

James Baldwin

Donna Tartt

Toni Morrison

Daphne DuMaurier

Oscar Wilde

F Scott Fitzgerald

Edward St. Aubyn

Evelyn Waugh

Bret Easton Ellis

Shirley Jackson

Marisha Pessl

#dark academia #darkacademia #light academia #moodboard #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia moodboard #romantic academia #art academia #soft academia #dark academia art #chaotic academia #dark academia books #dark academia moodboard #books & libraries #boooks #books and coffee #coffee #light academia aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #classic academia #dark academia vibes #academia #studyblr #aesthetic #literature academia #source: pinterest #pinterest moodboard #cottagecore #cottagecore academia #coquette academia

[granolagaeilgeoir]

"I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone."

--Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

#from mystery_live on Flickr #autumn #dark cottagecore #cottagecore

[desdasiwrites]

– Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

#book quote of the day #daphne du maurier #rebecca #gothic fiction #classics #historical fiction #Maxim de Winter # the second Mrs de Winter # Rebecca de Winter #Mrs Danvers #dark academia #Byronic hero #book quotes

[sixerbookblog]

Of the two books who made me freak out to the point of needing to literally throw them across the room and completely skip the rest of the chapter, I did not expect "Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier to be one of them.

Mrs. DeWinter is pressured by her servant, Mrs. Danvers to commit suicide.

It's a... very long scene. Describing the things below and it made me think - Mrs. Danvers is the embodiment of anxiety and depression. That voice that pressures you to think that no one cares about you and that you make everyone's lives worse. So I do not recommend this book if you suffer from those. Especially because the author is never given a name, and despite the use of I, it can be very easy to put yourself into her shoes instead.

#rebecca daphne du maurier

[g-raynard]

“The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon.” ― Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

~Photo Adolf Fassbender

[janeeyreofmanderley]

I was about to make fun of Sharpe going "Hm, I feel weird after being hit by a bullet and now suffering massive bloodloss while still running and fighting, I guess the bullet must have been poisoned. Yes that is a reasonable explanation" before fainting.

However, then I remembered that my last thought before collapsing in the middle of a road from a side effect of a vaccination was "Oh how interesting! I am loosing my vision! Dots dancing before my eyes! This is just how Daphne DuMaurier described a fainting fit" before I promptly keeled over, becoming a considerable traffic obstacle.

So I guess that proves that people about to faint are not at their most intelligent and also that I lost all mocking rights on this subject for eternity.

#richard sharpe #sharpe's gold #sharpe #still years later perplexed that no one stopped to help me #I woke up still blind only hearing cars honk at me #I was a 14 year old kid looking lots younger #crawled from the street dragging my bike behind me before hyperventilating at the sidewalk #what a fun day that was

[rains-of-words]

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Daphne duMaurier, Rebecca

#quotes #rains of words #usermaximoff #books #Daphne du Maurier #Rebecca

[bye-bye-sunbird]

I AM INTERESTED!! 😍😍 I wanna know how to implement more tragedy in my stories, and thank you sm for the recs! I'll be sure to look em up later 🥰🥰

NJASNDJKASNDKAJ You flatter me, my darling love u//w//u <3

I think the advice I can give, according to my writing, is something similar to "show, don't tell".

There are many ways to write tragedies. To my liking, I use tragedy not only as a moment of pain, but as a shadow that is cast over the character's world, and that never completely leaves them. There are moments that resemble happiness, but this shadow will always darken those moments: A smile that slowly fades, eyes that cling to what they can see from their window, empty words of love, saying that you forgive without intending to do so.

I like the tragedy that occurs when you give the characters what they want, but not what they need. This may be getting something they wanted, but the cost they pay turns out to be very high.

They get the girl they wanted, but she no longer has the qualities they loved so much and made her special. They get that long-awaited kiss, but it feels forced. They get that "I love you" they yearned for so long, but her eyes say something else.

Also, in Gothic literature, as it was created at a time when people were shocked by an ankle sticking out of a skirt, many of these passionate feelings were reflected in nature itself. Nature and feelings stood in opposition to industry and reason, feeling passionately was akin to being wild. That is why so much emphasis is placed on the environment, and that is something that we owe a great deal to that literary style: Setting, Scene, Aesthetics.

Use the environment as a reflection of your characters, put them in the middle of the rain when their mind is tormented, lay them down on the path to feel the sun when they are happy and calm, let the snow fall and lock them in their houses when they are depressed and it is impossible for them to leave that state of unwellness.

An example of this in a work of mine could be this excerpt from "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes:"

"The morning air was filled with mist from the forest that surrounded the estate, and the gargoyles and stone demons on the garden walls seemed blurred as if seen through a veil of tears."

In literature, an example of this comes from Rebecca:

“The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.” ― Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca.

In both cases, a phenomenon of nature is happening, and it serves as a setting. But they also serve as a metaphor for the sentiment the characters involved in the scene won't speak aloud, either because they don't want to face their feelings, or because they aren't completely aware of them.

My writing advice is, of course, not universal. I think it would be more properly named: Styling advice for writers? Not everyone is going to like it, nor is it going to work for them. But I hope this was at the very least interesting to read <3!

#shumidehiro asks #writing advice #writing tips #gothic sunnie

[ariainstars]

Jane Austen: Too Much of a Good Thing

Sorry I'm ranting.

Uff. I've had it. I have just decided that I'm fed up.

I'm sick of Jane Austen.

There. I've said it.

Seriously, what’s the matter? You can’t go a step without stumbling over Jane Austen and her characters.

In particular, Pride and Prejudice. It’s a good novel but these days I come across it in social media so often I can’t stand it anymore. There is just no escape. No fandom seems to be without an Austen crossover and / or reference.

For the record:

The overused dialogues between the two protagonists count up to five. Elizabeth spends more time thinking about Darcy and speaking about him than actually interacting with him.

Elisabeth was uninterested in Darcy and even annoyed at him until she saw his beautiful grounds at Pemberley. (She’s so not materialistic, oh no, she loves him purely for himself.)

The infamous scene where he turns up at her place to make an impassioned declaration of love drenched in rain is from a movie. It doesn’t appear in the novel at all.

Fitzwilliam is not exactly an exciting name. Does anyone believe he likes being called “Oh, Mr Darcy” in the bedroom?

Jane Austen is a fine novelist. I have read all of her works. That doesn’t mean she’s the only good writer when it comes to romance, not even historical romance. Whether she’s the best is up to anybody’s guess (and taste).

I have decided that I will quit reading fanfiction or meta's of any kind as soon as the name “Austen” or one of the titles of her novels or names of her characters drop.

Please. Read something else. Watch something else. Quote someone else.

There is Georgette Heyer (I love the absurd situations she sometimes depicts), the Brontë sisters, George Eliot. I loved Daphne duMaurier's Rebecca, and L.M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

Too much of the same kind of food makes one sick. Jane Austen is certainly making me feel sick by now.

Or at least, someone please explain to me where this obsession comes from, because I certainly can’t. All I know is that I’m fed up.

Seriously: if I ever quote or refer to anything from Jane Austen from now on, you’re welcome to beat me up.

Good night.

#rant #literature #jane austen #p&p #fitzwilliam darcy #elizabeth bennet #romance novels #historical novels #fanfiction #fandom

[ariadnethedragon]

—Frenchman’s Creek, Daphne DuMaurier

#frenchman’s creek #daphne du maurier #20th century literature #english literature #literature #books #book quotes #quotes #romance quotes #love quotes

[smallest-turtle]

People who are misusing "haunting the narrative" just need to read Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier

#i didnt like reading it in school but it is something i can point to as an impact on my character writing #text #not fandom #my post

[castlelover88]

What she says: I'm fine

What she means: Did Taylor Swift leave the third party in the Betty-James-August love triangle unnamed despite having a song written from her point of view as an allusion to Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca, in which the second Mrs DeWinter is never named despite the fact that the entire story is told from her point of view, thus exploring how women can become side characters in their own story even when they're the ones telling in, thus in turn alluding to her loss of control over her own words with the loss of her masters, with the loss of these meaning that she too became a side character in her own story, with other people owning the songs she herself wrote and sang?

#august #taylor swift #folklore #rebecca #daphne du maurier #betty #cardigan