Original sentence: "  (Du Maurier [author of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel, The Birds, Don't Look Now, and other works] rejected the existence of homosexuality in her attraction and unrequited passion for Doubleday -- a homophobic sentiment that also masked her affair with Gertrude Lawrence
Edited sentence: "  (Du Maurier, author of Rebecca and other works, was deeply conflicted about her attraction to and unrequited passion for Doubleday, as she would later be about her affair with Gertrude Lawrence