Four French Holidays

Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their Novels Inspired by France

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This study explores the French hotels, villas, towns and regions that influenced the books of four British women novelists. A brief biography of each introduces a review of their work: Godden’s The Greengage Summer, inspired by the Champagne country; Sharp’s The Nutmeg Tree, set in the Côte d’Azur; Du Maurier’s The Scapegoat (set in the Loire); and Gibbons’ Alpine novel The Snow Woman.

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