Whiteley 1948 offers an excellent, concise introduction to Du Maurier’s art. James 1897 and Kelly 1983 provide a useful critical overview of both the pictures and novels. It combines scholarly biography and critical discussion of the artistic and literary works. The most authoritative, exhaustive study of Du Maurier to date is Ormond 1969. He illustrated books by the great authors of his day, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, to name but a few. Beyond Punch, Du Maurier’s artwork was featured in several other influential publications, including Once a Week and The Cornhill Magazine. Cimabue Brown, a soulful aesthete, and her protégés, the Wildean types Maudle and Postlethwaite. His satirization of the aesthetes brought forth the renowned characters Mrs. Du Maurier also famously parodied the Pre-Raphaelites (1860s) and the aesthetic movement (1880s) in the pages of Punch. They feature well-known characters including the vulgar nouveau-riche Sir Gorgius Midas and the ruthless social climber Mrs. His pictures of fashionable society, many set in drawing rooms and London clubs, satirize the fashions and manners of the Victorian social elite. George Du Maurier is perhaps best known as the social cartoonist for Punch (a position he took in 1864 on the death of John Leech). He was the father of the acclaimed actor-manager Sir Gerald Du Maurier and grandfather of the popular novelist Dame Daphne Du Maurier. He also wrote Peter Ibbetson (1891) and The Martian (published posthumously in 1897). 1896), the celebrated Victorian cartoonist and novelist, is the author of Trilby (1894), the famous best seller widely considered to have changed the face of the late 19th-century publishing industry.
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