"of Noorpur""), and it was a hit with audiences in Pakistan and India. In the episode Eloise from ""The Sopranos"", Carmella Soprano, while at lunch with her daughter Meadow, speaks disapprovingly of Meadow's relationship with her boyfriend, saying that they ""hang on each other"", to which Meadow replies ""Excuse me, Mrs. Danvers, what do you have against love?"" Meg & Dia's Meg Frampton penned a song entitled ""Rebecca"", inspired by the novel. Kansas alumnus Steve Walsh's solo recording ""Glossolalia"" includes a song entitled ""Rebecca"", with lyrics seemingly composed from Maxim de Winter's point of view: ""I suppose I was the"
"and the fact Maxim knew about her affairs. In the end, having failed to break up the marriage, Mrs. Danvers disappears and soon after, Manderley is set on fire. In the book's final scene, Maxim and Mrs. de Winter are driving back from London and see their beloved home in flames. In the novel, Mrs. Danvers' fate is unknown; early in the novel, the narrator, looking back on the events of the story, writes, ""Mrs. Danvers. I wonder what she is doing now."" Mrs. Danvers was first, and most famously, portrayed by Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation released"
"in 1940. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but lost to Jane Darwell for ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Mrs. Danvers would later be played by several actresses for television adaptations, such as Dorothy Black in 1947, Nina Foch in 1962, Anna Massey in 1979, Diana Rigg in 1997, and by Mariangela Melato in an Italian language adaptation. In the book, Mrs. Danvers is given a back story. In contrast, the Hitchcock and all subsequent film adaptations never mention her past. Furthermore, the book depicts her as having a ""skull's face"" with high cheekbones and sunken"
"Housekeeping (novel) Housekeeping is a novel by Marilynne Robinson, published in 1980. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (which Robinson would eventually win for her second novel, ""Gilead""), and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In 2003, the ""Guardian Unlimited"" named ""Housekeeping"" one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing the book as ""Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women."" ""Time"" magazine also included the novel in its ""TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"". Ruthie narrates the story of how she and"
"and reshooting were called for after a rough cut was previewed on December 26, 1939. Although Selznick insisted that the film be faithful to the novel, Hitchcock did make some other changes, though not as many as he had made in a previously rejected screenplay, in which he altered virtually the entire story. In the novel, Mrs. Danvers is something of a jealous mother figure, and her past is mentioned in the book. But in the film, Mrs. Danvers is a much younger character (Judith Anderson would have been about 42 at the time of shooting), and her past is"
"with ""Family Portrait"" (1939), which she adored but only had a short run. She later toured in the show. She then received a career boost when cast in Alfred Hitchcock's ""Rebecca"" (1940). As the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, Judith Anderson was required to mentally torment the young bride, the ""second Mrs. de Winter"" (Joan Fontaine), even encouraging her to commit suicide; and taunt her husband (Laurence Olivier) with the memory of his first wife, the never-seen ""Rebecca"" of the title. The movie was a huge critical and commercial success and Anderson was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Anderson was"
"Winter""). The haughty Mrs. Danvers oversees the well-organized servants; she is cold and hostile to Ich. Later, in the morning room, Mrs. Danvers is alone (""Sie ergibt sich nicht""). Ich comes in and accidentally breaks a statue of Cupid; she is frightened. She fears that she is an unworthy replacement for Maxim's beautiful, elegant and mysterious first wife, Rebecca. Beatrice and Giles arrive in a happy mood (""Die lieben verwandten""). In the library, Ich becomes tipsy (""Bist du glücklich - Bist du böse""). At night, Ich and Maxim are in love (""Hilf mir durch die Nacht""). At her house, Beatrice"
"Are Lovers"". When ""The Invader"" was finally published in 1928, it was also favourably received, being considered by ""Country Life"" to be ""one of the best novels of the year"". Her next two novels, ""Her Father's House"" (1930) and ""The Soldier and the Gentlewoman"" (1932) were also critically acclaimed. The latter, probably her most successful novel, was dramatised and produced at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Her subsequent novels, ""The Curtain Rises"" (1935), ""Harvest Home"" (1936), ""The Fair Woman"" (1942), ""Pardon and Peace"" (1945) and ""The Candle and the Light"" (1954) were also favourably received, but with less fervour. With the"
"Aunt Dahlia Dahlia Travers (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha. Proprietor of the weekly newspaper for women ""Milady's Boudoir"", she is married to Tom Travers, mother of Angela Travers and Bonzo Travers, and employs the supremely gifted French chef Anatole at her country house, Brinkley Court. Aside from Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, Aunt Dahlia appears in more Jeeves novels, and more Jeeves stories"
"October 2010 as part of a six-film horror/mystery DVD set. Mystery House (1938 film) Mystery House is a 1938 mystery-crime film, directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan as nurse Sarah Keate, and is based on the 1930 novel ""The Mystery of Hunting's End"" by Mignon G. Eberhart. Sheridan also played the same character in ""The Patient in Room 18"", released in January 1938, while Aline MacMahon played her in ""While the Patient Slept"" in 1935. At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery (Eric Stanely) announces to five fellow officers that one of them"
"of their guests, he furiously demands she change into a different dress. In the early morning hours after the ball, Mrs. Danvers openly displays her contempt for the second Mrs. de Winter by taking her on a tour of Rebecca's bedroom, which she has maintained as a shrine. Showing the young girl Rebecca's wardrobe and luxurious possessions, she tells her she will never be worthy of replacing her former mistress, and she encourages her to commit suicide by jumping out the window to the stone patio far below. Her manipulations are interrupted by a distress signal from a ship that"
"The Bookshop The Bookshop (1978) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel, set mainly in 1959, centres around Florence Green, a middle-aged widow, who decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk. The location she chooses is the Old House, an abandoned, damp property said to be haunted by a ""rapper"" (a poltergeist). After many sacrifices, Florence manages to start her business, which grows for about a year after which sales slump. She is opposed by the influential and ambitious Mrs Gamart who wants to acquire"
"the deranged Mrs. Danvers. The second Mrs. de Winter and the staff escape the blaze, but Danvers is killed when a ceiling collapses on her. Finally, a silk nightdress case on Rebecca's bed, with a beautifully embroidered ""R""—Rebecca's proud emblem of ownership—is consumed by flames. Hitchcock's cameo appearance, a signature feature of his films, takes place near the end; he is seen walking, back turned to the audience, outside a phone box just after Jack Favell completes a call. At Selznick's insistence, the film faithfully adapts the plot of du Maurier's novel ""Rebecca"". However, at least one plot detail was"
"deny her intellectual and spiritual growth, according to Elizabeth Ermarth, ""They are norms according to which she is an inferior, dependent creature who will never go far in anything, and which consequently are a denial of her full humanity."" The story was adapted as a film, ""The Mill on the Floss"", in 1937, and as a BBC series in 1978 starring Christopher Blake, Pippa Guard, Judy Cornwell, Ray Smith and Anton Lesser. A single-episode television adaptation of the novel first was aired on 1 January 1997. Maggie Tulliver is portrayed by Emily Watson and Mr Tulliver by Bernard Hill. The"
"The Ice House (novel) The Ice House (1992) is the first crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. The story was the recipient of a John Creasey award for best debut. Mrs Phoebe Maybury, a widow in her late thirties, lives in Streech Grange with her two companions Diana and Anne. One day her servant Fred finds a rotting corpse in their ice house, a storage room inside a hillock that hasn't been used for years. DCI George Walsh thinks it may be the corpse of Phoebe's husband David, who went missing ten years ago. Back then, Walsh suspected her"
"Maisie Dobbs (novel) Maisie Dobbs is a mystery by Jacqueline Winspear published in 2003. Set in England between 1910 and 1929, it features the title character Maisie Dobbs, a private investigator. Generally well received by critics, mostly because of Maisie's quirky character, the novel was nominated for several awards and received the 2003 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It is the first in the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie becomes a maid at the Belgravia Mansion of Lady Rowan Compton in 1910 at thirteen years old, after her mother dies, and she must help her father make ends meet. Soon"
"Murder at the New York World's Fair Murder at the New York World's Fair is a novel that was published in 1938 by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Freeman Dana. It is the only mystery she wrote under that name. Mrs. Daisy Tower is 67, the widow of a former governor, and for the last year has undergone the untender attentions of her nephew Egleston and his overbearing wife Elfrida during her convalescence from pneumonia and a broken hip. That might explain why she stows away in a laundry truck headed for Boston, but it doesn't really explain how she"
"comes across as a selfish, superficial woman who values fame and money like other high ranking social women. After witnessing the Henrietta's disrespect form Lady Manning she takes Henrietta in not because of selflessness, but because of pride. She is a strong Roman Catholic who is obsessed with her friend who is also Chaplain Danvers. Due to her jealousy of the relationship of Henrietta and Danvers, Lady Meadows decides to find her a suitor who was catholic, rich, and old, which gives Chaplain Danvers all to Lady Meadows. She wants Henrietta to marry sir Isaac Darby, who is old enough"
"Mystery House (1938 film) Mystery House is a 1938 mystery-crime film, directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan as nurse Sarah Keate, and is based on the 1930 novel ""The Mystery of Hunting's End"" by Mignon G. Eberhart. Sheridan also played the same character in ""The Patient in Room 18"", released in January 1938, while Aline MacMahon played her in ""While the Patient Slept"" in 1935. At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery (Eric Stanely) announces to five fellow officers that one of them has forged documents and embezzled $500,000. Before the evening is"
"return to England, Kate O'Brien worked at the ""Manchester Guardian"". After the success of her play ""Distinguished Villa"" in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded both the 1931 James Tait Black Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for her debut novel ""Without My Cloak"". Kate O'Brien is best known for her 1934 novel ""The Ante-Room"", her 1941 novel ""The Land of Spices"", and the 1946 novel ""That Lady"". Many of her books deal with issues of female agency and sexuality in ways that were new and radical at the time. Her 1936 novel, ""Mary Lavelle"", was banned in"
"Dandy Gilver Dandy Gilver is the protagonist of a historical mystery series by Catriona McPherson. The stories are set in Scotland in an era beginning shortly after World War I and extending (to date) into the early 1930s. Dandy (short for Dandelion) is an upper-class Englishwoman whose career as a private detective fills the void in her comfortable but unfulfilled life within a world of landownership and child-rearing for which she is temperamentally unsuited and a marriage that is short on emotional and sexual warmth. The novels feature dry humor and colorful characters in the cozy mystery tradition, along with"
"A series of mystery novels written by Carole Nelson Douglas features Irene Adler as the protagonist and sleuth, chronicling her life shortly before (in the novel ""Good Night, Mr. Holmes"") and after her notable encounter with Sherlock Holmes and which feature Holmes as a supporting character. The series includes Godfrey Norton as Irene's supportive barrister husband; Penelope ""Nell"" Huxleigh, a vicar's daughter and former governess who is Irene's best friend and biographer; and Nell's love interest Quentin Stanhope. Historical characters such as Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Alva Vanderbilt and Consuelo Vanderbilt, and journalist Nellie Bly, among others, also make appearances."
"a run down house in rural Cavan, right in the heart of Ireland, and embarks on a huge renovation project. While he is there, the house seems to speak to him there are voices coming from an untraceable source, the seductive smell of baking seeps through the walls, and there is the unmistakable ethereal presence of a woman from the past. The Adulteress (novel) The Adulteress is a novel by Norah E. Dunn published in 1927 by The MacGregor Company. Set in the American South, the main character is a woman who bears the child of a man married to"
"Columbia. Housekeeping (novel) Housekeeping is a novel by Marilynne Robinson, published in 1980. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (which Robinson would eventually win for her second novel, ""Gilead""), and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In 2003, the ""Guardian Unlimited"" named ""Housekeeping"" one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, describing the book as ""Haunting, poetic story, drowned in water and light, about three generations of women."" ""Time"" magazine also included the novel in its ""TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005"". Ruthie narrates the story of how she"
"The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling with her own mental illness. In 1949 Los Angeles, Mrs. Brown, wife of a World War II veteran, who is reading ""Mrs. Dalloway"", plans her husband's"
"in containing trouble from the colorful factions in his hotel. When Susie meets Franny, the two bond over their similar experiences and find refuge in a temporary sexual relationship. Gradually, Susie reclaims her humanity and self-confidence, and has a romantic relationship with John, but keeps the bear costume. She still suffers from a fear of producing ""ugly"" offspring, but becomes open to the idea of raising a (human) child when Franny asks her and John to adopt the baby she and Junior conceive. The novel was made into a film in 1984, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jodie Foster,"
"a woman's need to produce a male heir. In 1923, she married George Douglas Turner, a Scotsman she had met in India nineteen years earlier, after which she remained resident in England. Turner was a tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford. He later served as warden of Dartmoor Prison. Penal reform inspired her non-fiction study ""The Crime of Punishment"" (1931) and two novels, ""The Dark Duty"" (1931) and ""The Valiant Wife"" (1933), both ""melodramatic romances...constructed around the philosophical and dramatic problems of prison administration and reform."" Besides her eight adult novels, she also wrote a novel for children, ""The Devon Treasure"
"played Walsh and McLoughlin. The Ice House (novel) The Ice House (1992) is the first crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. The story was the recipient of a John Creasey award for best debut. Mrs Phoebe Maybury, a widow in her late thirties, lives in Streech Grange with her two companions Diana and Anne. One day her servant Fred finds a rotting corpse in their ice house, a storage room inside a hillock that hasn't been used for years. DCI George Walsh thinks it may be the corpse of Phoebe's husband David, who went missing ten years ago. Back"
"son enters the household. The Bondmaid The Bondmaid is 1998 novel by Catherine Lim, which tells a tragic love story of Wu, the master of a household, and Han, his maid, in 1950s Singapore. Sold into servitude at age of four by her own mother and treated harshly by fellow bondmaids, Han forms a bond with Wu, who is the grandson of a head housemaid. Their friendship becomes doomed love when Wu moves to the United States, and Han find herself stuck with jealous bondmaids and Wu's relatives in Singapore. Both face additional trials until Han's death. The book ends"
"family who own it: gradually falling in love with both the Japanese tea ceremony and with her young mistress, Yukako. As Aurelia grows up she devotes herself to the family and its failing fortunes in the face of civil war and western intervention, and to Yukako's love affairs and subsequent marriage. But her feelings for mistress seem doomed never to be reciprocated and, as tensions mount in the household, Aurelia begins to realise that to the world around her she will never be anything but an outsider. The Teahouse Fire The Teahouse Fire is a novel by Ellis Avery set"
"him into believing she was expecting another man's child to spur him to kill her in a murderous rage. Upon returning to Manderley, Max and his wife discover the estate is in flames, the fire set by a vengeful and despairing Mrs. Danvers. Max races upstairs to rescue the woman from Rebecca's bedroom. Though he manages to make it to the bedroom and retrieve Mrs. Danvers, he stumbles on the way back down; Mrs. Danvers' fate is unclear. In an epilogue set ten years later, we learn that Max walks with a limp and is scarred slightly as a result"
"The position often features in fiction. One notable character is Ebeneezer Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber who appears in Charles Dickens's ""A Christmas Carol"". In 1926, Lord Dunsany's fantasy novel, ""The Charwoman's Shadow"" was published to good reviews. Another well-known fictional charwoman is Ada Harris, the central character in Paul Gallico's novel ""Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris"" and its three sequels. In the British radio comedy series ""It's That Man Again,"" Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp, an office char whose catch phrase was ""Can I do you now, Sir?"" (i.e., ""May I clean your office now, Sir?"" but"
"dead woman. Mrs Danvers tries to get Mrs de Winter to commit suicide by encouraging her to jump out of the window. However, she is thwarted at the last moment by the disturbance occasioned by a nearby shipwreck. A diver investigating the condition of the wrecked ship's hull also discovers the remains of Rebecca's sailing boat, with her decomposed body still on board. This discovery causes Maxim to confess the truth to the second Mrs de Winter. He tells her how his marriage to Rebecca was nothing but a sham: How from the very first days husband and wife loathed"