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George Du Maurier
Standard Name: Du Maurier, George
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Education | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | 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 |
Publishing | Adelaide Procter | 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. |
Leisure and Society | Carola Oman | 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... |
Textual Production | Nina Hamnett | She dedicated it to Claude Mounsey
, with one quotation from the Latin poet Horace
and one from George Du Maurier
's Trilby. Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. prelims |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Leisure and Society | Kate Parry Frye | 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... |
Textual Production | Daphne Du Maurier | 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
. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 790 Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus. 436-7 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2586 (24 August 1951): 526 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Daphne Du Maurier | This study focuses mainly on her grandfather George du Maurier
. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Charles | Combe Edge soon became a noted centre of religous, philanthropic, and social activity. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 343 |
Publishing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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
. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 438n51 |
Textual Features | Isa Blagden | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sir J. M. Barrie | 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... |
Timeline
8 June 1885: A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier on the annual...
Building item
8 June 1885
A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier
on the annual Royal Academy
exhibition made fun of the recent controversy over nude models.
January-July 1894: George du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne)...
Writing climate item
January-July 1894
George du Maurier
(grandfather of Daphne
) serialized in Harper's Monthly Magazine his famous Trilby, a novel about the evil Jewish mesmerist, Svengali, and his young female victim.
July 1894: The bicycling craze was at its height. This...
Building item
July 1894
The bicycling craze was at its height. This form of transport and leisure was particularly empowering for women: they could choose where to go, and chaperones were unlikely to keep up.
Texts
Gaskell, Elizabeth, and George Du Maurier. Wives and Daughters. Smith, Elder, 1866.