George du Maurier's Subjects: Arts and Culture

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What Artists and Their Families Have to Put Up With

• "Equal to the Occasion"
• "Trials of a Painter's Wife"
• "Histrionic Egotism [an actor's self-centeredness]"
• "How Reputations of Distinguished Amateurs are Sometimes Made"
• "Precedence in Vanity Fair"
• "Two on a Tower"
• "Nature versus Art"
• Artistic Amenities
• "Distinguished Professionals"
• "Social Taradiddles"
• "What Our Artist Has to Put Up With"
• "The Mother of Invention"
• "Varnishing Day at the Royal Academy"

Looking at Works of Art

• "Professional Beauties of the Past"
• "Flunkyana"
• "A New Reading of a Famous Picture"
• At the R. A. -- Triumph of Realistic Art
• Instinctive Critical Acumen [Moses Striking the Rock]

Life with the Aesthetes

• "An Infelicitious Question"
• "Aesthetics"
• "An Antediluvian Survival"
• Perils of Aesthetic Culture
• Nincompoopiana
• Aesthetic Pride
• The Legend of Camelot (a five-part parody of the Pre-Raphaelites)

Literary Life: Authors and Readers

• "Taking the Chances"

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Other Topics

• Society and Manners
• Life with the Upper Crust: the Country House
• Unlucky Speeches, Ill-Considered Utterances, and Things One Could Wish to Have Expressed Otherwise
• Images of Women
• Men and Women, The War of the Sexes
• Children
• Church and University
• Urban Life
• Fads and Fashions
• British Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism, and the Like
• Book Illustration

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Last modified 1 July 2001