George du Maurier

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George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (born March 6, 1834 in Paris , † October 8, 1896 in London ) was a British author and draftsman.

Life

George du Maurier was born in Paris and grew up in the suburb of Passy, which at the time was still independent of the capital . He processed his childhood impressions in his first work, Peter Ibbetson . While his eponymous eponymous hero grew up in the rue de la Pompe , the young George du Maurier lived between 1842 and 1847 in a corner house with an entrance on rue de Passy and most of the windows of the apartment along rue de la Pompe.

Cartoon for Punch magazine

George du Maurier first studied art in Paris and then moved to Antwerp , where he became blind in his left eye. In Düsseldorf he contacted an ophthalmologist, visited a friend, the painter Thomas Armstrong , and there he met his future wife, Emma Wightwick. He followed her family to London, where he married Emma in 1863. In 1865 he became a member of the satirical magazine Punch , for which he drew two cartoons a week.

Due to his deteriorated eyesight, du Maurier retired from Punch in 1891 and wrote three novels , the last of which was published posthumously . His second novel Trilby is the story of the young model Trilby O'Ferrall, who is transformed into a diva by the curse of the evil musical genius Svengali . Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and a city in America were named after the heroine. The fabric inspired Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera .

Du Maurier's grave in London

Due to the autobiographical character of his novels, they represent a kind of “ fictional trilogy ” of his own life: Peter Ibbetson mainly plays in Passy, ​​the place of his own childhood and that of the character in the novel of the same name. Trilby focuses on student life in the Latin Quarter and The Martian focuses on his later years from blindness to the death of his fictional character Barty Josselin in London, where Du Maurier himself died soon after.

George du Maurier was the father of Gerald du Maurier and the grandfather of the author Daphne du Maurier . He was also the grandfather of the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired Peter Pan .

He was buried in Saint John's Churchyard in Hampstead , London.

Novels

Film adaptations

See also

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daphne du Maurier: The Du Mauriers , Heron Books, p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Maurier, George you
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson du (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1896
Place of death London