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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.
George du Maurier (born March 6, 1834, Paris, France—died Oct. 6, 1896, London, Eng.) was a British caricaturist whose illustrations for Punch were acute commentaries on the Victorian scene. He also wrote three successful novels.
Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from January to August 1894, it was published in book form on 8 September 1894 and sold 200,000 copies in the United States alone.
Dec 27, 2013 · Now it’s the turn of George du Maurier (1834-96), or George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier, to give him his full name. Here are the five reasons we’ve discovered for why we should all know this Victorian writer.
Sep 1, 2017 · George du Maurier’s Trilby: A Victorian Phenomenon – Interesting Literature. In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle doffs his hat to a half-forgotten Victorian sensation. Here’s a question for you: what was the biggest-selling novel of the Victorian era? And who wrote it – Dickens perhaps? George Eliot?
Mar 2, 2011 · George Du Maurier (b. 1834–d. 1896), the celebrated Victorian cartoonist and novelist, is the author of Trilby (1894), the famous best seller widely considered to have changed the face of the late 19th-century publishing industry.
Feb 16, 2017 · George du Maurier’s Trilby, published in 1894, became one of the most popular novels of its time. The story introduced us to a young heroine, Trilby, and a memorable villain, Svengali, whose names have since taken on lives of their own. A scene from the 1931 film Svengali.
A fan of the caricaturists, Du Maurier was an inheritor of two illustrative traditions: realism and caricature. He illustrated novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and William Thackeray. He also was a staff cartoonist or Punch, the leading Victorian humor magazine.
Dec 21, 2023 · Review of George du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic: Beyond Svengali, edited by Simon Cooke and Paul Goldman.
Sep 17, 2021 · In January 1894 author and artist George du Maurier took the world by storm with the first installment of his serialized novel, Trilby. The saga of the doomed artist’s model, which featured illustrations by du Maurier, appeared in eight installments in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, each issue selling out rapidly.
