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George du Maurier, autoritratto George du Maurier , nato George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier ( Parigi , 6 marzo 1834 – Londra , 8 ottobre 1896 ), è stato un illustratore e scrittore inglese .
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.
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. du Maurier, George: A Pardonable Mistake.
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2 mar 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. He also wrote Peter Ibbetson (1891) and The Martian (published posthumously in 1897).
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.
27 dic 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. 1. He was also a talented cartoonist, who drew what is perhaps the most famous Victorian cartoon.
27 gen 2024 · 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.
