Jamaica inn daphne du maurier review6/4/2023 It is beautiful for being so authentic, but also beautiful because it’s so artfully shot. Everything and everyone is ordurous and damp and dangerous. Jamaica Inn is Natural with a big ‘N’ as though it was pulled up out of the Cornish sod and had the thick of muck knocked off it to make it presentable for an HD age. In fact you’d be hard pressed to find a drama more influenced by the landscape around it. It clings to everything like a second skin. Soon she’s immersed in mud and intrigue and rum and mud and murder, and more mud. That’s what our protagonist Mary Yellan (Jessica Brown Findlay, currently playing a grave on Downton Abbey) finds when she goes there to live with her Aunt Patience and the brutish Uncle Joss Merlyn after the death of her mother. Nowadays the best you get is a sloppily-written rant about the sheets on a certain travel site.Īnd what acid your 21st century TwitAdvisor would sputter if they walked into Du Maurier’s imagined Jamaica Inn of the 1820s: ‘Surly owner…think he was drunk’, ‘Rundown tavern in middle of nowhere!’ probably. She loved the atmosphere and history of the place so much that she wrote a fictionalised historical novel set there. In 1930 Daphne Du Maurier stayed at Jamaica Inn in Cornwall.
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