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Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson - dyoo môrˈēā, 1834–96, English artist and novelist, b. Paris of a French father and an English mother. He studied chemistry, but later turned to art for a livelihood. In spite of the loss of one eye when he was a young man, he became a successful illustrator and in 1864 joined the staff of Punch. His novels include Peter

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Trilby: A Novel » Read Now
by George du Maurier. 470 pgs.

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...317 T R I L B Y El Novel BY GEORGE DU MAURIER AUTHOR OF "PETER IBBETSON...Delacroix, and Balzac and Stendahl and George Sand; and the good Dumas! and...lInstitut, et...
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The Young George du Maurier: A Selection of His Letters, 1860-67 » Read Now
by Daphne du Maurier, George du Maurier. 307 pgs.

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...THE YOUNG GEORGE DU MAURIER -i- GEORGE DU MAURIER Unfinished self-portrait in oils, painted in Paris, 1856 or 1857 THE YOUNG GEORGE DU MAURIER A SELECTION OF HIS LETTERS...
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A Henry James Encyclopedia ("du Maurier, George (1834-1896)" begins on p. 188) » Read Now
by Robert L. Gale. 796 pgs.

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"This brilliant, faultless, impeccably constructed work will maintain its status as an outstanding research tool invaluable both to undergraduate students and to scholars of James. It is unquestionably worthy of The Master, ' its subject." Choice
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Cyclopedia of World Authors (1958) ("George du Maurier" begins on p. 323) » Read Now
by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler. 1204 pgs.

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...Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy , 1940; George D. Thomson, Aeschylus and Athens...Friendship with another Charleston writer, Du Bose Heyward, led to their...
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The Mythic Svengali: Anti-Aestheticism in 'Trilby,' in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Jonathan H. Grossman. 18 pgs.

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...Grossman Writing about George Du Maurier in 1897, Henry James finds a...better parts. (1) Henry James, "George Du Maurier," Harpers New Monthly Magazine...p. 10). (4)...
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The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 ("du Maurier's Trilby" begins on p. 362) » Read Now
by Bernice Slote, Willa Cather. 489 pgs.

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...360 Du Mauriers Trilby 362...Mrs. Humphry Ward and George Eliot 374...dramatic criticism from George W. Gerwig, a young insurance...held many years. 19 George Gerwigs...
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The History of "Punch" (1895) (Discussion of George du Maurier begins on p. 503) » Read Now
by M. H. Spielmann. 592 pgs.

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...EDWIN SPIELMANN Drawn by George du Maurier. PREFACE...Double Acrostics -- George Cruikshank Defies Punch...Mr. G. du Mauriers First Drawing -- The...Wilson 497 George du...
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body » Read Now
by Anna Krugovoy Silver. 220 pgs.

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Anna Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body--hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness--in the creation of female characters. She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of...
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Anna Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body--hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness--in the creation of female characters. She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic female.
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