Du Maurier novel (1938) and Hitchcock film (1940) (7)

I believe the answer is:

rebecca

(Other definitions for rebecca that I've seen before include "Sunnybrook Farm girl" , "Daphne du Maurier's antiheroine" , "she loved Ivanhoe" , "Literary heroine" , "also Isaac" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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