"Now then, Mossoo, your Form is of the Manliest Beauty, and you are altogether a most attractive Object; but you've stood there long enough. So jump in and have done with it!"
George du Maurier was born in Paris, France, son of Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and wife Ellen Clarke, daughter of the Regency courtesanMary Anne Clarke. He was brought up to believe his aristocratic grandparents had fled from France during the Revolution, leaving vast estates behind, to live in England as émigrés. In fact, du Maurier's grandfather, Robert-Mathurin Busson, was a tradesman who left Paris, France, in 1789 to avoid charges of fraud and later changed the family name to the grander-sounding du Maurier.[1]
He met Emma Wightwick in 1853 and married her a decade later, on 3 January 1863, at St Marylebone, Westminster.[5][6] Moving frequently over the course of their marriage, the couple first settled in Hampstead in 1869, initially at Gang Moor near the Whitestone Pond for three years, before moving to 27 Church Row and later at New Grove House in 1881.[7][8][9] In 1891, the family is recorded as residing at 2 Porchester Rd in Paddington.[10] They had five children: Beatrix (known as Trixy), Guy, Sylvia, Marie Louise (known as May) and Gerald.[11]
Du Maurier became a member of staff at the British satirical magazine Punch in 1865, drawing two cartoons a week. His commonest targets were the affected manners of Victorian society, the bourgeoisie and members of Britain's growing middle class in particular. His most enduring cartoon, True Humility (1895), popularised the expressions "good in parts" and "a curate's egg". In it, a bishop addresses a humble curate, whom he has invited to breakfast: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr. Jones." The curate replies, "Oh no, my Lord, I assure you – parts of it are excellent!"[12] The gag was not original to du Maurier, however, as it had appeared in a similar cartoon a few months earlier in Judy, a less widely read competitor to Punch.[13] In an earlier (1884) cartoon, du Maurier coined the expression "bedside manner", with which he satirised medical care.[14] Another of his notable cartoons depicted a fanciful videophone conversation in 1879, using a device he called "Edison's telephonoscope".[15]
While producing black-and-white drawings for Punch, du Maurier created illustrations for several other popular periodicals: Harper's, The Graphic, The Illustrated Times, The Cornhill Magazine, and the religious periodical Good Words.[16] Furthermore, he did illustrations for the serialisation of Charles Warren Adams's The Notting Hill Mystery, which is often seen as the first detective story of novel length to have appeared in English.[17] Among several other novels he illustrated was Misunderstood by Florence Montgomery in 1873.[18]
WriterEdit
George du Maurier in the middle of his career
His deteriorating eyesight caused du Maurier to reduce his involvement with Punch in 1891 and settle in Hampstead, where he wrote three novels. His first, Peter Ibbetson (1891), was a modest success at the time and later adapted for stage and screen, most notably in a 1935 film, and as an opera.[19]
His second novel, Trilby, published in 1894, fitted into the gothichorror genre that was undergoing a revival. Hugely popular, it tells of a poor artist's model, Trilby O'Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of an evil musical genius, Svengali. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and even the city of Trilby, Florida, were named after her, as was the variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown worn in the London stage dramatisation of the novel. The plot inspired Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Phantom of the Opera and innumerable works derived from it.[20] Du Maurier eventually came to dislike the persistent attention the novel was given.
The third novel was a long, largely autobiographical work entitled The Martian, published posthumously in 1898.[citation needed]
Death and legacyEdit
George du Maurier's grave at St John's at Hampstead churchyard. Also interred in the same grave are Emma, his wife and Gerald du Maurier, his son.
Du Maurier died on 8 October 1896 and was buried in St John-at-Hampstead churchyard in Hampstead. The success of his writings and illustrations allowed du Maurier to leave a then staggering amount of £47,555 in his will.[21]
Du Maurier was a close friend of Henry James, the novelist; their relationship was fictionalised in David Lodge's Author, Author (2004).[22]
"A Legend of Camelot" Illustration by du Maurier for Punch, 17 March 1866, parodying Pre-Raphaelitism
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^London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P89/mry1/235. Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Church of England Parish Registers. London Metropolitan Archives, London.
^"A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington. British History Online". Victoria County History. 1989. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^Class: RG10; Piece: 192; Folio: 4; Page: 2; GSU roll: 823312. Ancestry.com. 1871 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England.
^Mary Cathcart Borer (1976), Hampstead and Highgate: The story of two hilltop villages. London: W. H. Allen & Co., p. 169. ISBN0491018274
^The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Class: RG12; Piece: 15; Folio: 174; Page: 3. Ancestry.com. 1891 England Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1891.
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^Egan, Kieran (2004). Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. Yale University Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN9780300105100.
^"The Curate's Egg: Parts of It Are Excellent". Quote Investigator. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
^Benham, W. Gurney. A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words: A Collection of Quotations from British and American Authors, Ancient and Modern. J. B. Lippincott, 1907, p. 458.
^Roberts, Ivy (2017). "'Edison's Telephonoscope': the visual telephone and the satire of electric light mania". Early Popular Visual Culture. 15 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1080/17460654.2016.1232656. ISSN 1746-0654. S2CID 191910615.
^Souter, Nick and Tessa (2012). The Illustration Handbook: A guide to the world's greatest illustrators. Oceana. p. 32. ISBN9781845734732.
^The original edition illustrated is available at the Internet Archive: Section 1 Retrieved 1 February 2013. Once a Week, Vol. 7, p. 617, 29 November 1862 and at weekly intervals.
^The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, eds. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 752.
^Flieger, Verlyn (2001). A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie. Kent: Kent State University Press. pp. 30–35. ISBN9780873386999.
^Nancy, Glazener (24 March 2011). "The novel in postbellum print culture". The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Edited by Leonard Cassuto. Cambridge University Press. p. 337. ISBN9781316184431.
^Ancestry.com. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England.
^Harrison, Sophie, "'Author, Author': The Portrait of a Layabout" The New York Times, October 10, 2004.
^Saturday-Night Theatre: Peter Ibbetson – BBC – Radio Times
Further readingEdit
Simon Cooke and Paul Goldman. George Du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic. Beyond Svengali. Routledge, 2016
Richard Kelly. George du Maurier. Twayne, 1983
Richard Kelly. The Art of George du Maurier. Scolar Press, 1996
Leonée Ormond. George du Maurier. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1969
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George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier 6 March 1834 8 October 1896 was a Franco British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch and a Gothic novel Trilby featuring the character Svengali His son was the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier The writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier and the artist Jeanne du Maurier were all granddaughters of George He was also father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J M Barrie s Peter Pan George du MaurierBornGeorge Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier 1834 03 06 6 March 1834Paris FranceDied8 October 1896 1896 10 08 aged 62 Hampstead EnglandOccupationCartoonist illustrator novelistSpouseEmma Wightwick m 1863 wbr Children5 including Guy Sylvia and Gerald Now then Mossoo your Form is of the Manliest Beauty and you are altogether a most attractive Object but you ve stood there long enough So jump in and have done with it Cartoon by du Maurier from Punch Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Cartoonist 2 2 Writer 3 Death and legacy 4 Bibliography 5 Film adaptations 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksEarly life EditGeorge du Maurier was born in Paris France son of Louis Mathurin Busson du Maurier and wife Ellen Clarke daughter of the Regency courtesan Mary Anne Clarke He was brought up to believe his aristocratic grandparents had fled from France during the Revolution leaving vast estates behind to live in England as emigres In fact du Maurier s grandfather Robert Mathurin Busson was a tradesman who left Paris France in 1789 to avoid charges of fraud and later changed the family name to the grander sounding du Maurier 1 Du Maurier studied art in Paris France in the studio of Charles Gleyre 2 and moved to Antwerp Belgium where he lost the vision in his left eye He consulted an oculist in Dusseldorf Rhineland Prussia German Confederation He was reportedly studying chemistry at University College London in 1851 3 He is recorded in the 1861 England Census as a lodger at 85 Newman St in Marylebone 4 He met Emma Wightwick in 1853 and married her a decade later on 3 January 1863 at St Marylebone Westminster 5 6 Moving frequently over the course of their marriage the couple first settled in Hampstead in 1869 initially at Gang Moor near the Whitestone Pond for three years before moving to 27 Church Row and later at New Grove House in 1881 7 8 9 In 1891 the family is recorded as residing at 2 Porchester Rd in Paddington 10 They had five children Beatrix known as Trixy Guy Sylvia Marie Louise known as May and Gerald 11 Career Edit nbsp George du Maurier s former home at 91 Great Russell Street LondonCartoonist Edit Du Maurier became a member of staff at the British satirical magazine Punch in 1865 drawing two cartoons a week His commonest targets were the affected manners of Victorian society the bourgeoisie and members of Britain s growing middle class in particular His most enduring cartoon True Humility 1895 popularised the expressions good in parts and a curate s egg In it a bishop addresses a humble curate whom he has invited to breakfast I m afraid you ve got a bad egg Mr Jones The curate replies Oh no my Lord I assure you parts of it are excellent 12 The gag was not original to du Maurier however as it had appeared in a similar cartoon a few months earlier in Judy a less widely read competitor to Punch 13 In an earlier 1884 cartoon du Maurier coined the expression bedside manner with which he satirised medical care 14 Another of his notable cartoons depicted a fanciful videophone conversation in 1879 using a device he called Edison s telephonoscope 15 While producing black and white drawings for Punch du Maurier created illustrations for several other popular periodicals Harper s The Graphic The Illustrated Times The Cornhill Magazine and the religious periodical Good Words 16 Furthermore he did illustrations for the serialisation of Charles Warren Adams s The Notting Hill Mystery which is often seen as the first detective story of novel length to have appeared in English 17 Among several other novels he illustrated was Misunderstood by Florence Montgomery in 1873 18 Writer Edit nbsp George du Maurier in the middle of his careerHis deteriorating eyesight caused du Maurier to reduce his involvement with Punch in 1891 and settle in Hampstead where he wrote three novels His first Peter Ibbetson 1891 was a modest success at the time and later adapted for stage and screen most notably in a 1935 film and as an opera 19 His second novel Trilby published in 1894 fitted into the gothic horror genre that was undergoing a revival Hugely popular it tells of a poor artist s model Trilby O Ferrall transformed into a diva under the spell of an evil musical genius Svengali Soap songs dances toothpaste and even the city of Trilby Florida were named after her as was the variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown worn in the London stage dramatisation of the novel The plot inspired Gaston Leroux s 1910 novel Phantom of the Opera and innumerable works derived from it 20 Du Maurier eventually came to dislike the persistent attention the novel was given The third novel was a long largely autobiographical work entitled The Martian published posthumously in 1898 citation needed Death and legacy Edit nbsp George du Maurier s grave at St John s at Hampstead churchyard Also interred in the same grave are Emma his wife and Gerald du Maurier his son Du Maurier died on 8 October 1896 and was buried in St John at Hampstead churchyard in Hampstead The success of his writings and illustrations allowed du Maurier to leave a then staggering amount of 47 555 in his will 21 Du Maurier was a close friend of Henry James the novelist their relationship was fictionalised in David Lodge s Author Author 2004 22 nbsp A Legend of Camelot Illustration by du Maurier for Punch 17 March 1866 parodying Pre RaphaelitismBibliography EditPeter Ibbetson 1891 also 1917 play adapted in 1935 by Henry Hathaway into a film starring Gary Cooper also adapted as an opera by Deems Taylor in 1931 and in 1988 dramatised as a radio play for BBC Radio 4 Saturday Night Theatre by David Buck 23 Trilby 1894 published first as a magazine serial in 8 parts The Martian 1898 Social Pictorial Satire 1898 Harper s New Monthly Magazine Film adaptations EditTrilby 1914 starring Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Viva Birkett Trilby 1915 starring Wilton Lackaye and Clara Kimball Young Forever 1921 starring Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson Trilby 1923 starring Arthur Edmund Carewe and Andree Lafayette Svengali 1927 starring Paul Wegener and Anita Dorris Svengali 1931 starring John Barrymore and Marian Marsh Peter Ibbetson 1935 starring Gary Cooper and Ann Harding The Guilt of Janet Ames 1947 starring Melvyn Douglas and Rosalind Russell Svengali 1954 starring Donald Wolfit and Hildegard Knef Svengali 1983 starring Peter O Toole and Jodie FosterSee also EditTrilbymaniaReferences Edit George Du Maurier Illustrator and Novelist www victorianweb org Ainger Alfred 1901 Du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson Dictionary of National Biography 1st supplement Vol 2 pp 161 166 London England Oxford University Press Volume Vol 22 Page 370 Ancestry com Dictionary of National Biography Volumes 1 22 database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2010 This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors Stephen Sir Leslie ed Dictionary of National Biography 1921 1922 Volumes 1 22 London England Oxford University Press 1921 1922 Dictionary of National Biography 1921 1922 Oxford University Press London England Class RG 9 Piece 66 Folio 57 Page 37 GSU roll 542567 Ancestry com 1861 England Census database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2005 Census Returns of England and Wales 1861 Kew Surrey England The National Archives of the UK TNA Public Record Office PRO 1861 Data imaged from The National Archives London England George du Maurier Illustrator and Novelist London Metropolitan Archives London England Reference Number P89 mry1 235 Ancestry com London England Church of England Marriages and Banns 1754 1932 database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2010 Church of England Parish Registers London Metropolitan Archives London A History of the County of Middlesex Volume 9 Hampstead Paddington British History Online Victoria County History 1989 Retrieved 26 June 2020 Class RG10 Piece 192 Folio 4 Page 2 GSU roll 823312 Ancestry com 1871 England Census database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2004 Census Returns of England and Wales 1871 Kew Surrey England The National Archives of the UK TNA Public Record Office PRO 1871 Data imaged from the National Archives London England Mary Cathcart Borer 1976 Hampstead and Highgate The story of two hilltop villages London W H Allen amp Co p 169 ISBN 0491018274 The National Archives of the UK TNA Kew Surrey England Class RG12 Piece 15 Folio 174 Page 3 Ancestry com 1891 England Census database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2005 Census Returns of England and Wales 1891 Kew Surrey England The National Archives of the UK TNA Public Record Office PRO 1891 Class RG11 Piece 166 Folio 99 Page 19 GSU roll 1341036 Ancestry com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints 1881 England Census database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2004 Census Returns of England and Wales 1881 Kew Surrey England The National Archives of the UK TNA Public Record Office PRO 1881 Egan Kieran 2004 Getting It Wrong from the Beginning Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer John Dewey and Jean Piaget Yale University Press pp 22 23 ISBN 9780300105100 The Curate s Egg Parts of It Are Excellent Quote Investigator Retrieved 5 March 2019 Benham W Gurney A Book of Quotations Proverbs and Household Words A Collection of Quotations from British and American Authors Ancient and Modern J B Lippincott 1907 p 458 Roberts Ivy 2017 Edison s Telephonoscope the visual telephone and the satire of electric light mania Early Popular Visual Culture 15 1 1 25 doi 10 1080 17460654 2016 1232656 ISSN 1746 0654 S2CID 191910615 Souter Nick and Tessa 2012 The Illustration Handbook A guide to the world s greatest illustrators Oceana p 32 ISBN 9781845734732 The original edition illustrated is available at the Internet Archive Section 1 Retrieved 1 February 2013 Once a Week Vol 7 p 617 29 November 1862 and at weekly intervals The Feminist Companion to Literature in English eds Virginia Blain Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy London Batsford 1990 p 752 Flieger Verlyn 2001 A Question of Time J R R Tolkien s Road to Faerie Kent Kent State University Press pp 30 35 ISBN 9780873386999 Nancy Glazener 24 March 2011 The novel in postbellum print culture The Cambridge History of the American Novel Edited by Leonard Cassuto Cambridge University Press p 337 ISBN 9781316184431 Ancestry com England amp Wales National Probate Calendar Index of Wills and Administrations 1858 1995 database on line Provo UT USA Ancestry com Operations Inc 2010 Principal Probate Registry Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England London England Harrison Sophie Author Author The Portrait of a Layabout The New York Times October 10 2004 Saturday Night Theatre Peter Ibbetson BBC Radio TimesFurther reading EditSimon Cooke and Paul Goldman George Du Maurier Illustrator Author Critic Beyond Svengali Routledge 2016 Richard Kelly George du Maurier Twayne 1983 Richard Kelly The Art of George du Maurier Scolar Press 1996 Leonee Ormond George du Maurier Routledge amp Kegan Paul London 1969 Du Maurier a poem by Florence Earle Coates first published in 1898External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to George du Maurier nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to George du Maurier nbsp Wikisource has original works by or about George du Maurier nbsp Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article Du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson Ainger Alfred 1901 Du Maurier George Louis Palmella Busson Dictionary of National Biography 1st supplement Vol 2 pp 161 166 Works by George du Maurier at Project Gutenberg Works by or about George du Maurier at Internet Archive Works by or about George du Maurier at HathiTrust Works by or about George du Maurier at GoogleBooks Works by George du Maurier at LibriVox public domain audiobooks nbsp A gallery of George du Maurier works for Punch magazine George du Maurier at The Victorian Web George du Maurier at Lambiek net Works by George Du Maurier illustrator at Faded Page Canada George du Maurier s cartoon Love Agony satirizing the Aesthetic Movement and Oscar Wilde George du Maurier cartoons at CartoonStock Commercial site Telephonoscope a cartoon of a television videophone in 1879 Archival material relating to George du Maurier UK National Archives nbsp Portraits of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier at the National Portrait Gallery London nbsp Blue Plaque at 91 Great Russell Street Bloomsbury London George du Maurier at University of Exeter Special Collections George du Maurier at Library of Congress with 77 library catalogue records Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George du Maurier amp oldid 1176576843, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
