George of Maurier

See also: Of Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson of Maurier (March 6th 1834 with Paris - October 8th 1896 with Hampstead) is an illustrator and British writer.

Biography

He studies the fine arts in Paris before leaving for Antwerp, where he loses the use of his left eye, which obliges it to give up its vocation of painter. Whereas it is with Düsseldorf to consult an ophtalmologist, it meets Emma Wightwick, that it marries shortly after with London in 1863.

Become collaborator of the satirical magazine Punch in 1865, it draws two caricatures per week there. Its more famous caricature, entitled True Humility (“true humility”), is at the origin of an expression become proverbial in English, It' S like the curate' S egg (“It is like egg of vicar”), which can result in “There are good and the bad one. ” It is the history of a vicar invited to have his breakfast in the bishop, which exclaims suddenly: “Oh, but one to you given a rotted egg! ” It what the vicar answers: “But at all! Certain parts are very good. ”

Its sight worsening, George of Maurier is constrained to leave Punch in 1891. It settles with Hampstead, where, encouraged in particular by Henry James, it starts to write.

He dies a little later in 1896. He is buried with the Saint-John cemetery of the parish of Hampstead, in London.

George of Maurier is the father of the actor Gerald of Maurier and the grandfather of Daphne of Maurier as well as wire of Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies, which inspired the novel Peter Pan of James Matthew Barrie.

Works

George of Maurier is the author of three novels, illustrated by her care, which mixes reality with the marvellous one: Peter Ibbetson (1891), Trilby (1894) and the Martian (1897). Most known among them, Trilby , the history of a very poor model for artists tells, who, under the hypnotic of Svengali, a brilliant musician and malefic influence, enters in fright and becomes temporarily a singer of talent. The novel was a success such as it gave its name to various products, in particular with a hat, the “Trilby”, invented at the time of an adaptation of the novel for the scene. The intrigue of Trilby inspired partly the Phantom of the Opera of Gaston Leroux.

Film adaptation

Source

External bond

  • Analysis of a caricature of the telephonoscope of Edison, by George of Maurier.

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