In today's society, romance and mystery novels are the reading preferences of many women. Daphne du Maurier is known for being a novelist who has the admirable ability to create this type of literary work. Incorporating personal life experiences into her works, Daphne du Maurier captures the essence of love, adventure, and mystery in her popular novels. Daphne du Maurier wrote many novels related to her love life. This made her audience really interested in her work because they related to Daphne's life. "Daphne du Maurier has the deserved reputation of being an outstanding romance novelist." (Stubb, 1998). Du Maurier being such an outstanding romance novelist, really shows in one of her most famous novel The Loving Spirit. This novel is a fairy-tale version of her life because she wrote about the love that she and her husband (Fredrick Browning) had shared. Du Maurier's novel Rebecca also relates to her love experiences. In this novel love is shown in a different way then the novel The Loving Spirit. This novel wasn't about the love that a woman has for her husband, it's the kind of love that a woman had to get into a wealthy family. " In love. Maxim de Winter had not said anything yet about love." (du Maurier, 1938, 56). When Maxim de Winter said nothing about love. Rebecca was surprised and happy when she found out that the man that she wanted to love her, end up loving her.
             Daphne du Maurier loved to write mysteries, more than anything else. The novel Rebecca was the first gothic romance of the twentieth century. A gothic romance is a romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events. It's known to be a gothic romance because a young woman who feels a sense of competition with her husband's first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances. It included a young woman named Rebecca married to an older man. Rebecca has a deep need for love in her life, from her own father to the man she is married too. It seem...