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- ISBN 9781513215532
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Mint Editions
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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George du Maurier (1834-1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist novelist and short story writer. Born in Paris du Maurier was raised in an aristocratic family whose fortunes had dwindled following his paternal grandfathers implication in a 1789 financial scandal. His mother Ellen Clarke was the daughter of courtesan Mary Anne Clarke the former mistress of Prince Frederick Duke of York and Albany. Educated in Paris at the art studio of Charles Gleyre du Maurier moved to Antwerp and Düsseldorfwhere he sought help for an ailment in his left eyebefore settling in London in 1851. There he married Emma Wightwick with whom he would raise five children some of whom went on to successful careers in the arts. In 1865 du Maurier found work as a cartoonist for Punch magazine where he gained a reputation as a leading satirist for cartoons poking fun at Victorian society and the burgeoning middle class. In addition to his black and white drawings for Punch du Maurier produced illustrations for such periodicals as Harpers The Graphic and The Cornhill Magazine. As his eyesight failed du Maurier turned increasingly to fiction writing the play Peter Ibbetson (1891) and the popular gothic horror novel Trilby (1894) both of which have been adapted for theater and film.
