George Du Maurier

Her formal teaching was dominated by music. For singing one of her teachers was one de Soria who was said to be the original of Glorioli in Du Maurier's Trilby; another was Paolo Tosti

Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch (who was later the fiancé of the...

DDM's grandfather George du Maurier was a writer of best-selling novels: his career was undoubtedly important to her. He was not, however, an unproblematic role model. He claimed to be descended from French forebears...

Combe Edge soon became a noted centre of religous, philanthropic, and social activity. Marie Belloc Lowndes, who stayed there for many weekends as a child with her mother, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)

In a letter to the Times in 1962, CO described a bookcase in her writing-room which held the works she described as All the Winners. For a writer of fairly conservative views and strong...

She enjoyed riding a bicycle, and also when opportunity offered a horse, but both these activities were taboo when she was menstruating (whether for health or other reasons is not clear). She was a keen...

Dedicated to Edmund Yates, this too had been serialized: in Once a Week from 7 March to 3 October this year, illustrated by George du Maurier. It appeared with MEB's name.

Illustrated by George du Maurier, this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope and Thackeray, and shared the lead with Collins's Armadale. EG received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's...

The volume, whose illustrators included W. T. C. Dobson, Samuel Palmer, Sir John Tenniel, and George du Maurier, was in its eighth edition by 1881.

The image of a masculine snake preying upon an innocent woman is repeated in Mesmerism: A Death-Bed Confession, which figures the magnetist as a serpent and demon who employs his power to seduce his...

She dedicated it to Claude Mounsey, with one quotation from the Latin poet Horace and one from George Du Maurier's Trilby. Advertising began in early August, calling the work a further...

DDM edited with an introduction a volume of her grandfather's letters: The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of His Letters, 1860-1867, published by Peter Davies.

This study focuses mainly on her grandfather George du Maurier.