List of residential addresses of George du Maurier

The following list of the residential addresses of George du Maurier contains all traceable residential addresses of the British author and illustrator George du Maurier . Each address is provided with a reference to the source. Since partly contradicting information exist, the focus in the early years (up to around 1860) was placed on the family history of The Du Maurier of his granddaughter Daphne du Maurier. For the years between 1860 and 1867, the letters from George du Maurier were primarily used, which were later published by Daphne du Maurier in the book The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 . Information from 1867 is mainly based on British History Online and websites that have dealt with George du Maurier in more detail.

The most significant contradiction within the first two sources arises from the duration of the stay in the Rue de Passy and a possible four-year residence period in the Rue de la Tour.

The photos shown in the list only show in a few cases the house where George du Maurier actually lived. Often the old building no longer exists and has been replaced by a new building, which is, however, under the same number. Sometimes the old house numbers no longer exist, for example in London's Berners Street (a side street off Oxford Street that runs parallel to Newman Street, which will be discussed in a moment). There is no longer a house with the number 8, but the Hotel Berners under number 10 takes the place of the previous houses number 6 to 10. It is similar on Newman Street, where there is no longer a house with number 70. There you will find house number 71 next to house number 66-67. Houses with numbers 85 and 91 are there. However, they are so modern that they no longer have any resemblance to the house where George du Maurier lived, so that they are not shown. These unadorned office buildings are more similar to the house in Düsseldorf's Schadowstrasse, whose photo is included in the list as an example of the rapid urban development.

time	place of residence	particularities
1834-1835	Paris , Champs Élysées No. 80 (apartment on the 1st floor)	George du Maurier alias "Kicky" was born here on March 6, 1834.
1835-1838	Not named suburb of Brussels	His brother Alexandre Eugène alias "Gyggy" was born here in 1836.
1838 - ????	London , Marylebone House , No. 1 Devonshire Terrace	Here his sister Isabella was born in 1839.
???? - 1842	Boulogne , Grande Rue	Here he lived with his mother and two siblings with his grandmother, while his father was on a long trip abroad in India.
1842-1847	Passy , Rue de Passy , corner house to Rue de la Pompe (1st floor)	The time in Passy formed the basis for his first novel, Peter Ibbetson . The house no longer existed in 1887. Avenue Paul Doumer now runs in its place .
1847-1851	Paris, rue du Bac
1851-1856	London, Pentonville , 44 Wharton Street	He moved here reluctantly to live with his father; his mother and sister Isabella later followed suit. George never felt comfortable here and after his father died in the house the family immediately moved.
1856-1857	Paris, Rue du Faubourg Poissonnière	His father had already bought an apartment here at the beginning of the 1840s, to which George could retreat and begin his long-awaited art studies. He completed this at Gleyre's Studio , Latin Quarter , Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs . This time formed the basis for his second novel Trilby .
1857-1858	Antwerp (in a shabby room above a market square)	The “tragedy of his life” happened here in 1858 when he went blind in his left eye. In his third novel, The Martian , his fictional character Barty Josselin also goes blind in the left eye and temporarily lives on Place de Meer and Place Verte in Antwerp.
1858-1859	Mechelen	His mother moved into an apartment here after learning of his illness. Apparently he moved in with her, or at least lived here for a while. His fictional character Barty Josselin also lives temporarily in Mechelen; with his aunt at number 36 on rue des Ursulines Blanches. Maybe the author also lived at this address?
1859-1860	Düsseldorf , Schadowstrasse No. 84	The move to Düsseldorf took place after he had heard from a globally recognized eye specialist with a practice in Gräfrath .
1860	London, Soho , 70 Newman Street	Here he lived for a few months (approx. May to October) in the back room of his friend Jimmy Whistler's studio.
1860	London, Soho, 8 Berners Street	He lived here for about a month in November 1860.
1860-1861	London, Soho, 85 Newman Street	He lived here from November 1860 to May 1861
1861-1862	London, Soho, 91 Newman Street	His last residence as a bachelor from June 1861 to December 1862
1863	London, Bloomsbury , 46 Great Russell Street	First address after his marriage to Emma Wightwick on January 3, 1963. Here the couple moved into an apartment on the 2nd floor and George a studio on the ground floor. The house is directly opposite the British Museum .
1863-1868	London, Bloomsbury, 91 Great Russell Street (1st floor)	According to the sender addresses of his letters, he lived with Emma under this number from June 1863 and stayed there until 1868 according to the plaque on the house.
1868-1870	London, Kensington , 12 Earls Terrace
1870-1874	London, Hampstead , No. 27 Church Row	His son Gerald was born here in 1873 .
1874-1895	London, Hampstead, New Grove House, No. 28 Hampstead Grove	With a residence of more than 20 years his longest-standing address, at which he lived until shortly before his death.
1895-1896	London, Paddington , No 17 Oxford Square	About a year before his death, he moved back to the center of London, which was also due to the expiry of the lease of his long-term residence in Hampstead. George du Maurier died at his last address on October 8, 1896.

A plaque on New Grove House reminds that George du Maurier lived here between 1874 and 1895.

References and comments

1. ^ ^{A b} Daphne du Maurier : The Du Mauriers , Heron Books, p. 136
   Note: Deviating from this, George du Maurier himself reports (in The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , p. 269) on the following Places of residence and times: "I took the bus to rue de la Tour , where we lived for four years, and from there I went to the corner of rue de la Pompe, where we then lived for three years."
2. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 107
3. ↑ The Du Mauriers , pp. 119, 124
4. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 126
5. ^ The Du Mauriers , pp. 127, 130, 135
6. ↑ The Du Mauriers , p. 325
7. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 147
8. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 183
9. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 250
10. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 256
11. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 257
12. ^ George du Maurier: The Martian , Harper Brothers, 1898, p. 189
13. ^ George du Maurier: The Martian , Harper Brothers, 1898, p. 303
14. ^ The Du Mauriers , p. 261
15. ^ George du Maurier: The Martian , Harper Brothers, 1898, p. 271
16. ↑ The Du Mauriers , p. 274
17. ↑ The Du Mauriers , p. 291
18. ^ Daphne du Maurier (ed.): The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1952 , pp. 8ff
19. ^ The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860–67 , p. 21
20. ^ The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , pp. 26ff
21. ^ The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , p. 52
22. ^ The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , p. 190
23. ^ The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , p. 183
24. ^ Daphne du Maurier: The Du Mauriers , Heron Books, p. 315
25. ^ The young George du Maurier - A Selection of his Letters, 1860-67 , p. 206
26. ^ UCL Bloomsbury Project: Great Russell Street
27. ^ British History Online: The Edwardes Estate: North of West Cromwell Road - Notable Residents
28. ^ British History Online: Hampstead town
29. ^ Website dedicated to George Du Maurier
30. ^ British Listed Buildings: New Grove House 28, Hampstead
31. ↑ British History Online: Tyburnia - A History of the County of Middlesex
32. ↑ George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians