Self portrait of George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a British author who was born in Paris, France. George du Maurier - Project Gutenberg eText 14392 - http://www. ... George du Maurier - Project Gutenberg eText 14392 - http://www. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... October 8 is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years). ... 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

He studied art in Paris, and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where he lost vision in his left eye. He consulted an oculist in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he met his future wife, Emma Wightwick. He followed her family to London, where he married Emma in 1863. For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and (together with Cologne and the Ruhr Area) the economic center of Northwestern Germany. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ...

He became a member of the staff of Punch in 1865, drawing two cartoons a week for the magazine. His most famous cartoon, " True Humility", was the origin of the phrases "good in parts", and "a Curate's egg". Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... Image File history File links Curates Egg cartoon, Punch November 9, 1895. ... The expression, a curates egg means something that is partly good and partly bad and as a result is not wholly satisfactory, but also not completely unsatisfactory either. ...

In 1891, because of increasing blindness, he retired from Punch, and the family settled in Hampstead, where he wrote three novels (the last was published posthumously). Hampstead is a place in the London Borough of Camden and near to Hampstead Heath. ...

His second novel, Trilby, the story of Trilby O'Ferrall, an artist's model, who is transformed into a successful singer under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and a town in America were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) is still sometimes referred to as a trilby. The plot inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 potboiler Phantom of the Opera, and the innumerable works derived from it. Trilby is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier published in 1894. ... Svengali is the name of a fictional hypnotist in George Du Mauriers 1894 novel, Trilby. ... A trilby or trilby hat is a soft felt mens hat with a narrow brim and a deeply indented crown. ... Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (May 6, 1868, Paris – April 15, 1927, Nice) was a French journalist, detective and novelist. ... The title character as depicted by Lon Chaney, Sr. ...

George du Maurier was the father of Gerald du Maurier and so grandfather of the prominent writer Daphne du Maurier, and also grandfather of the Llewelyn-Davies boys who inspired Peter Pan. Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (March 26, 1873–April 11, 1934) was a British actor and manager. ... Daphne du Maurier DBE (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was one of the most successful Cornish novelists of all time. ... Statue of Peter Pan in St. ...

He was interred in Saint John's Churchyard in Hampstead parish in London. Hampstead is a place in the London Borough of Camden and near to Hampstead Heath. ...

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Illustration by du Maurier for Punch magazine, 17 March 1866. Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

Novels

• Peter Ibbetson - 1891
• Trilby - 1894
• The Martian - 1897

Trilby is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier published in 1894. ...

Further reading

• Richard Kelly. George du Maurier. Twayne, 1983.
• Richard Kelly. The Art of George du Maurier. Scolar Press, 1996.

External links

• George Du Maurier at Lambiek.net
• George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by T. Martin Wood. Full text of the 1913 book from Project Gutenberg
• Works by George du Maurier at Project Gutenberg