George Du Maurier

Standard Name: Du Maurier, George

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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
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...
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...
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, 1941. 343 Marie Belloc Lowndes , who stayed there for many weekends as a child with her mother, Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes)
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...
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...
Publishing	Elizabeth Gaskell	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...
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. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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, 1979. 438n51 It appeared with MEB 's name.
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...
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, 1993. 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
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, 1955. prelims Advertising began in early August, calling the work a further...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Daphne Du Maurier	This study focuses mainly on her grandfather George du Maurier .

Timeline

8 June 1885

A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier on the annual Royal Academy exhibition made fun of the recent controversy over nude models.

McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.

59 and fig. 36

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.

Phillips, Adam. “Unfathomable Craziness”. London Review of Books, 18 May 2000, pp. 8-10.

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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.

Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.

227-8

Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.

170

Texts

Gaskell, Elizabeth, and George Du Maurier. Wives and Daughters. Smith, Elder, 1866, 2 vols.