George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians

Du Maurier's artistic creed that everything should be drawn from nature--and tables and chairs are "nature" for the artist--forced him to return again and again to accessible pr...

One cannot help being struck by a resemblance between the coming to town and the almost immediate success there of du Maurier and Thackeray. The comparison has its interest in t...

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When the modern process came in artists enlarged their drawings so as to secure delicacy of effect from the result of the reduction in printing. In such a case they really work...

The famous reply of an early Editor to the usual complaint that _Punch_ was not as good as it used to be--"No, sir, it never was"--cannot be considered to hold good in any compa...

The artist's family was of the small nobility of France. The name Palmella was given him in remembrance of the great friendship between his father's sister and the Duchess de Pa...

Mr. W.D. Howells, in an article written just after the novelist's death, said:[3]--"It was my good fortune to have the courage to write to du Maurier when _Trilby_ was only half...

Both du Maurier and Keene knew the _genus_ artist in all its varieties; and it is very interesting to contrast, and note the difference between, the "Artist" whom du Maurier bri...

Thackeray bulks more largely in the diary than even du Maurier, for du Maurier's genius in the table conversation was wholly for asides. We have already mentioned his comparativ...

The unpublished sketches which we have been allowed to reproduce from du Maurier's private sketch-book, and which we are using as end pieces, are very interesting. In the strict...