{{short description|Fictional estate in the novel Rebecca}} {{About||the mansion in Ireland|Manderley Castle|the Burmese city|Mandalay|the film|Manderlay}} [[File:Gatehouse to Menabilly - geograph.org.uk - 30203.jpg|thumb|The gatehouse of [[Menabilly]]]] '''Manderley''' is a fictional [[estate (land)|estate]] in [[Daphne du Maurier]]'s 1938 novel ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'', owned by the character Maxim de Winter.
Located in [[Southern England]], Manderley is a typical country estate: it is filled with family heirlooms, is run by a large domestic staff and is open to the public on certain days. It is often said to be in [[Cornwall]], as this is where the author lived, and the nearby placenames "Kerrith" and "Lanyon" are [[Cornish language|Cornish]]-derived; the film version is explicitly set in Cornwall.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.akademikernewek.org.uk/place-names/etymology/ker|title=ker|language=kw|publisher=[[Akademi Kernewek]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.akademikernewek.org.uk/place-names/content/lanyon|title=Lanyon|date=27 August 2019|language=kw|publisher=[[Akademi Kernewek]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media | people =[[Alfred Hitchcock]] | date =1940 | title =[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]] | trans-title = | type =film | language =en | url = | access-date = | archive-url = | archive-date = | format = | time = | location = | publisher =[[Selznick International Pictures]] | id = | isbn = | oclc = | quote =It rather reminds me of our coastline at home. Do you know Cornwall at all? | ref = }}</ref>
In spite of the house's beauty, the main character, the unnamed narrator, who has become mistress of Manderley, senses an atmosphere of doom about it, due to the death of Max's first wife (the titular Rebecca), and it is hinted that Rebecca haunts the estate. At the end, Manderley is burned down to the ground.
Du Maurier's childhood visits to [[Milton Hall]], [[Cambridgeshire]], home of the Fitzwilliam family, influenced the descriptions of Manderley, especially the interior. She told the [[Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 10th Earl Fitzwilliam|10th Earl Fitzwilliam]] in a letter that when she wrote ''Rebecca'' 20 years later, the interior of Manderley was based on her recollection of the rooms and 'big house feel' of Milton in the First World War.<ref name = "5parishes">{{Cite web |url=http://www.thearchive.org.uk/thebook/5parishes/ch22.pdf |title="Five Villages, Their People and Places" A History of the Villages of Castor, Ailsworth, Marholm with Milton, Upton and Sutton |access-date=2018-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016153740/http://www.thearchive.org.uk/thebook/5parishes/ch22.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The adult du Maurier's Cornish home near [[Fowey]], called [[Menabilly]], was influential in her descriptions of the setting, though it was a much smaller house. Seven years after writing the novel, she leased the manor (1945–1967) from the [[Rashleigh family]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/23/101023147/|title=Philip Rashleigh|access-date=2013-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926210249/http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/23/101023147/|archive-date=2013-09-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> who have owned it since the 16th century. Like Menabilly, Manderley could not be seen from the road.
==In popular culture== *Manderley appears in most film and TV adaptations: the [[Rebecca (1940 film)|1940 film]] by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], the [[Rebecca (1997 miniseries)|1997 television series]], and the [[Rebecca (2020 film)|2020 film]] by [[Ben Wheatley]]. *As a result of the novel's popularity, the name "Manderley" became extremely popular as a name for ordinary houses. The [[Irish people|Irish]] singer [[Enya]] renamed her [[Dublin]] castle [[Manderley Castle]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-11-03 |title=Enya on her new album, living in a castle and the international appeal of her music |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34699044 |access-date=2022-10-19}}</ref> *A "Manderley Castle" features in one of the ''[[Anno Dracula]]'' books by [[Kim Newman]]. *Danish film director [[Lars von Trier]]'s [[2005 in film|2005]] film ''[[Manderlay]]'' is set in a country estate with a large domestic staff. *In [[Stephen King]]'s 1998 novel, ''[[Bag of Bones]]'', "Manderley" is a semi-isolated lake house in Maine, identified with Sara Laughs, in the dreams of the main character Mike Noonan. *There is a fully functional "Manderley Bar" in the fictional McKittrick Hotel, home to the immersive theater performance of "[[Sleep No More (2011 play)|Sleep No More]]" in New York City on West 27 Street. The bar is named after the estate from ''Rebecca'', and several characters, plots, and themes from the novel appeared in the performance.
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{{Daphne du Maurier}} {{Rebecca (novel)}}
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