Diane Setterfield accomplished with triumph with The Thirteenth Tale because of the relations with the novels “Jane Eyre”, “Wuthering Heights”, and “The Woman In White” which are three very successful and familiar novels to the …show more content…
When Diane Setterfield was a child, she believed that stories came from natural phenomena and that writers were just scribes. The novel took three years to write. Through these years, she first thought of the psychopathic assassin, Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley character. Diane was moved by the loneliness such a person might feel, and in an thrilling rush of creativity she wrote the piece of Miss Winter’s letter to Margaret. In addition, she came across this man who developed the idea of twins. Then, when Diane saw this dream of a dark house, she thought of including of the scene “setting a house on