George du Maurier
George Louis Busson du Maurier palmella ( 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 at the time still independent from the capital suburb of Passy. He processed in his first work Peter Ibbetson his childhood impressions. While his eponymous title character grows up in the Rue de la Pompe, the young George du Maurier lived 1842-1847 in a corner house with entrance in the Rue de Passy and most of the windows of the apartment along Rue de la Pompe.
First, George du Maurier studied art in Paris and then moved to Antwerp, where he became blind in the left eye. In Dusseldorf he contacted an ophthalmologist and 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 deteriorating eyesight to du Maurier in 1891 retired from Punch and wrote three novels, the last of which was published posthumously. His second novel Trilby is the story of a young model Trilby O'Ferrall, the moults by the curse of the evil musical genius Svengali to a diva. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste and a city in the Americas were named after the heroine. The fabric inspired Gaston Leroux ' The Phantom of the Opera.
Due to the autobiographical imprint of his novels set this in its entirety a kind of " fictional trilogy" of his own life shows: Peter Ibbetson plays mainly in Passy, the place of his own childhood and that of his fictional character of the same name. Trilby has student life in the Latin Quarter to the center and The Martian focus his later years by the blindness to the death of his fictional character Barty Josselin in London where you died it even Maurier soon.
George du Maurier was the father of Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the author Daphne du Maurier. He was also grandfather of the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired Peter Pan.
He was on the Saint John's Churchyard in Hampstead, London, buried.
Novels
- Peter Ibbetson (1891 )
- Trilby (1894 )
- The Martian (1897 )