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George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier ( Parijs, 6 maart 1834 – Hampstead, 8 oktober 1896) was een Brits auteur en tekenaar. Hij studeerde in Parijs en verhuisde naar Antwerpen, België waar hij aan één oog blind raakte. Hij raadpleegde een deskundige te Düsseldorf, Duitsland, waar hij zijn latere echtgenote Emma Wightwick leerde kennen.
The eldest of the three children of the scientist and inventor, Louis-Mathurin Du Maurier, and his wife, Ellen (née Clarke), George Du Maurier was born on 6 March 1834 in the Champs-Elysées, Paris, and baptised in May 1835 at Rotherfield, Sussex. He spent his childhood, between England and the Continent, in an atmosphere of precarious ...
George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier, né le 6 mars 1834 à Paris et mort le 8 octobre 1896 à Hampstead (Londres, Royaume-Uni), est un écrivain et illustrateur britannique, né français. Il a notamment écrit les romans Peter Ibbetson et Trilby (ce dernier fait apparaître le personnage de Svengali ).
1 de oct. de 1998 · Trilby. Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siecle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula. Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris. Though it features the hijinks of three lovable English artists - especially ...
George du Maurier, Dennis Denisoff. First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. Immensely popular for years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, Trilby products from hats to ice cream, and streets in ...
21 de dic. de 2023 · George du Maurier, Illustrator and Novelist (1834-1896): An Overview. "Of du Maurier, perhaps, more than of any other artist, it may be said that the man himself appears in his works; for in all that long series of inimitable drawings that for years added so greatly to the popularity of Punch, the refinement of his mind, his keen sense of ...
Även om du Maurier inledningsvis var förbryllad över framgången så blev han till slut trött på den ständiga uppmärksamheten kring romanen. George du Maurier var nära vän med författaren Henry James. Deras vänskap återgavs i David Lodges Author, Author. Han var far till Gerald du Maurier och farfar till Daphne du Maurier.
