George Du Maurier
George Du Maurier
GEORGE LOUIS PALMELLA BUSSON DU MAURIER was born in Paris in 1834, and died in England in 1896. His father, a naturalized British subject…
George Du Maurier: Paris
The year 1856 found him in Paris, in the Latin Quarter, a student at "the core of the art world" of which in "Trilby" he produced a…
George Du Maurier: Billie
On a showery April day the three friends were in the studio, each occupied to his taste, Taffy vigorously swinging a pair of Indian clubs…
George Du Maurier: Svengali
Svengali at once suggested that they have some music, and, seating himself at the piano, ran his fingers up and down the keys with the easy…
George Du Maurier: Gecko
One night they attended a concert in a large hall on the Rue St.-Honore. The first violin had scarcely taken his seat before they…