Du Maurier, George

George du Maurier (1834–96) was a Victorian illustrator, satirical cartoonist, and novelist. He published cartoons in such magazines as The Graphic , Cornhill Magazine , and Once a Week , and joined the staff of Punch in 1865. Toward the end of his life, he published three novels, Peter Ibbetson (1891) , Trilby (1894), and The Martian (1897), all of which he illustrated. Long in the public eye as an illustrator of novels and a cartoonist, he achieved extraordinary international fame with the 1894 serialized publication Trilby, which became not only a bestseller but also a mass‐cultural phenomenon. Trilby was adapted into live performances and films and was widely cited in articles, popular images, and advertisements in the late 1890s. Scholarship on Du Maurier has been weighted heavily toward Trilby and the significance of the extraordinary vogue it achieved.