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| Name: |
George Du Maurier | | Variant Name: |
George Louis P B DuMaurier | | Birth Date: |
March 6, 1834 | | Death Date: |
October 8, 1896 | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Ethnicity: |
French, English | | Gender: |
Male |
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Biography of George Du Maurier
4,036 words, approx. 14 pages
 During the last seven years of his life, George Du Maurier turned from his career as the leading artist for Punch and the popular illustrator of books to achieve new acclaim as a novelist. His three novels, Peter Ibbetson (1891), Trilby (1894) and The...
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Biography of George Du Maurier
2,140 words, approx. 7 pages
 During the last seven years of his life George Du Maurier wrote and illustrated three fantasy novels with the barest touch of science in each of them. Though each of the novels is firmly rooted in the London and Paris of the middle 1800s, each also...



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George du Maurier Quotes
199 words, approx. 1 pages
 George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier ( 6 March , 1834 – 8 October , 1896 ) was a French -born British author and cartoonist . Sourced A little work, a little play To keep us going—and so good-day! A little warmth, a little light Of love’s...


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George du Maurier Information
540 words, approx. 2 pages
 George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March, 1834 – 8 October, 1896) was a French-born British author and cartoonist. He studied art in Paris, and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where he lost vision in his left eye. He consulted an oculist in...



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 The Boston Globe
Reasserting The Substance Of Daphne Du Maurier
04/02/2000: 591 words, approx. 2 pages Sardonic fate has decreed that Daphne du Maurier should be remembered for "Rebecca," which Nina Auerbach in this incisive critical overview deems "masochistic, derivative, and only quasi- coherent" - unlike most of her other works. "One reason why I remain loyal to this strange...
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 The Independent - London
Obituary: Angela du Maurier
02/13/2002: 783 words, approx. 3 pages ANGELA DU MAURIER, the eldest of the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier's three daughters, might have seemed to have lived in the shadow of her famous sister Daphne but, such was her strength of character, nobody in the family ever thought so. She wasn't beautiful...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Derek Pepys Whiteley
9,837 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Whiteley provides an overview of Du Maurier's life and work, focusing most extensively on his circle of literary and artist friends.
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Critical Essay by Leonée Ormond
5,156 words, approx. 17 pages
 In the following essay, Ormond critiques Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson, finding the Passy scenes laudable but the rest of the novel somewhat unsatisfactory and disjointed.


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