Jamaica Inn (novel)
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Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. Set in Cornwall around 1815, it was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the actual Jamaica Inn, which still e
The first UK edition
Wrecking (shipwreck)
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Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered or run aground close to shore. Often an unregulated activity of opportunity in coastal communities, wrecking has been
Jamaica Inn (novel)
…that the inn is an unsavoury place, mistrusted by the locals, and that her uncle is closely linked with a group of suspicious men who appear to be wreckers. After her parents' death, the 23 year-old Mary Yellan is forced to sell the family farm. As a promise to her mother, Mary goes to live with her only…
Wreckers, Coast of Northumberland by J.M.W. Turner, 1834