![]() ![]() ![]() I see the simple and exceedingly elegant cut of her black dress, and her dark, suggestive beauty offset by her pale and sensitive hands, and the creamy flesh of her slender neck emerging above the modest neckline. ![]() ![]() In my imagination a streak of light catches Rachel’s very soignèe, very tightly combed and knotted dark hair, and shows off to its best advantage her beautifully shaped head. Since then I have read and re-read this marvelous book several more times, and I think I have finally managed to put my finger on the hook which was from the very start securely lodged in my cheek.įrom the opening chapters an image of Rachel emerged in my imagination as a Franco Zeffirrelli heroine – a delicate combined portrait of Madame Bovary and Jane Eyre in looks – but painted in fine Italian chiaroscuro. Like so many people who have read this book and have never been able to forget it, I was instantly captivated by Daphne Du Maurier’s My Cousin Rachel (published in July of 1951) from the first time I read it as a teenager. ![]()
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