DID DAPHNE DU MAURIER PIRATE "REBECCA"?
Received Wednesdav, 7 p.m. UUW" YORiv, Oct. 22. Dapline du Mauru'r, tiic Brili.sh authoress, appeared today in the Uniteu States District Court to defernl herself against a six years »ld charge that she comniitted a literarv piracy in 1938 when she wrote ' ' Rebecca. " The suit, •liarging plagiarism, was filed in 1041 bv Mrs. Edwina Levin Macdonald whose works — the short story "I Planned to Murder My Hnsband" and the novel •'Blind Windows" — were claimed as the source of "Rebecca." VI rs. Maclonald died im April, 11)47, tlie claiin being carried on by her son Clifford. Ihe aniount of the claiin was not specined in eourt but Macdonald is asking for a full accounting of the daniages ind an injunetion on the book's further sale. If judgnient is granted, the daniages couhLamount to a record figure because "Reliecca" sold more than 1,500,000 copies. Daplme du Mauri er has denied reading Mrs. M acdonald 's books before ID.'IS and asserts that the general theme allowed eertain inconsequential similarities to result.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 October 1947, Page 5
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174DID DAPHNE DU MAURIER PIRATE "REBECCA"? Chronicle (Levin), 23 October 1947, Page 5
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