Judge Dismisses Ptagiarism Suit
NEW YORK. Fri. (11.30 a.m.) Mr Justice Bright in the Federal Court today dismissed the plagiarism suit against the English authoress Daphne du Maurier, which alleged that her best-selling novel “Rebecca” was based partly' on works by r the late Edwina Levin MacDonald.
He found that Daphne du Maurier never had access to two works of Mrs MacDonald, “Blind Widows” and “I Planned to Murder My Husband.” The judge added: “There was nothing in Miss du Maurier’s testimony which seemed to me false or improbable and I accept it.”
Daphne du Maurier in private life is the wife of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning, Comptroller of The Princess Elizabeth's Household.
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Northern Advocate, 17 January 1948, Page 5
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