Jamaica Inn is a 1936 novel by the mistress of suspense, Daphne Du Maurier. Circa 1820, 23-year-old Mary Yellan has to go and live with her Aunt Patience and her husband Joss Merlyn at the dismal Jamaica Inn on Cornwall's Bodmin Moor. The novel became the basis of a movie by English director, Alfred Hitchcock. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1930/00/00 | Daphne Du Maurier | Visitor | One cold night, Foy Quiller-Couch, the daughter of Arthur Quiller-Couch, and Daphne du Maurier arrive at the Jamaica Inn. The following day they will go riding on the high windswept Bodmin Moor and get lost in the mist. | Jamaica Inn | Altarnun | ||
| 1935/12/00 | Daphne sends her friend, Foy Quiller-Couch, a signed copy of "Jamaica Inn" as an early Christmas present to. | ||||||
| 1936/04/17 | Daphne Du Maurier | Author | "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier is published in the United Kingdom by Victor Gollancz Ltd. | ||||
| 1936/04/17 | Victor Gollancz Ltd | Publisher | "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier is published in the United Kingdom by Victor Gollancz Ltd. | ||||
| 1937/00/00 | Doubleday, Doran and Company | Publisher | "Jamaica Inn" is published by Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, New York. |
| Particulars for Jamaica Inn (book): | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Gothic Fiction | genre of decaying settings, medieval locales with dark atmosphere of isolation, mystery and terror | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Crime | Smuggling | ||
| Marine salvage | Wreckers | ||
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