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Manderley: in Popular Culture

Manderley is the fictional estate in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca. It is located in southern England, described as Cornwall. Manderley is a typical grand country estate, filled with heirlooms and staff. The current lady of the house, referred to as the "I", senses a feeling of doom due to the death of the first wife Rebecca, who seems to still haunt the estate. Descriptions of Manderley were influenced by places the author had visited.

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Manderley: in Popular Culture

Manderley is the fictional estate in Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca. It is located in southern England, described as Cornwall. Manderley is a typical grand country estate, filled with heirlooms and staff. The current lady of the house, referred to as the "I", senses a feeling of doom due to the death of the first wife Rebecca, who seems to still haunt the estate. Descriptions of Manderley were influenced by places the author had visited.

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Manderley

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Manderley is the fictional estate of the character Maxim de Winter, and it plays a central part in Daphne du
Maurier's 1938 novel, Rebecca, and in the film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock. Located in southern England
(often stated to be Cornwall as this was where the author lived and was explicitly stated as such in the
Hitchcock adaptation), Manderley is a typical country estate: it is filled with family heirlooms, is run by a large
domestic staff and is open to the public on certain days. In spite of the house's beauty, the main character, the
unnamed "I", who has become mistress of Manderley, senses an atmosphere of doom about it, due to the death
of Max's first wife (the titular Rebecca), and it is hinted that she haunts the estate. Childhood visits to Milton
Hall, Cambridgeshire, home of the Fitzwilliam family, influenced the descriptions of Manderley, especially the
interior. The adult du Maurier's Cornish home near Fowey, called Menabilly, was influential in her descriptions
of the setting. Several years after writing the novel, she leased the manor (19451967) from the Rashleigh
family,[1] who have owned it since the 16th century. Like Menabilly, Manderley could not be seen from the
road.

In popular culture
As a result of the novel's popularity, the name "Manderley" became extremely popular as a name for
ordinary houses, and at one time was the most common house name in the UK. Notably, the Irish singer
Enya renamed her Dublin castle Manderley Castle.
Manderley Castle features in one of the Anno Dracula books by Kim Newman.
Danish film director Lars von Trier's 2005 film, Manderlay, is set in a country estate with a large
domestic staff, similar to Manderley from Rebecca.
In Stephen King's 1998 novel, Bag of Bones, it is a place identified with Sara Laughs, a semi-isolated
lake house in Maine, in the dreams of the main character (Mike Noonan).
The smoky, 1930s-themed Manderley Bar jazz lounge in Chelsea, New York is so named as a specific
reference to the Hitchcock film. The bar also serves as the entryway to the Hitchcock-inspired site-
specific theatre installation Sleep No More, by British theater company Punchdrunk.

References
1. "Philip Rashleigh" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/23/101023147/).

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