Nemesis. From English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. Click on image to enlarge it.
Mrs. Constantia (to old adorer, who has married for money).—“And these are your children, Ronald? Oh !. . . how like their mother!”
Details and Other du Maurier Cartoons Featuring Children
- The children’s faces
- Children with toy boat at edge of pond
- "Hampered with a Conscience"
- "Rivals Small and Earlies" [sic]
- "Mothers's Darlings"
- "The Tables Turned"
- "A Question of Age"
- "An Introduction"
- "Reasoning from Induction"
- "Gentle Terrorism"
- "An Unpleasant Social Duty"
- "At the Zoo"
- "The March of Progress"
- "I Must Have This Tooth Out!"
- "Feminine Perversity"
- "Chacun pour soi"
- "Proxy"
Like Trollope and other contemporary novelists, du Maurier occasionally glanced satirically at the marriage market, which involved two parties from different social strata. one marrying for money, th eother for social position. Most often, penniless men of the upper classes "married down," choosing a woman from a wealthy family with lower social stature. The woman might be the daughter iof a banker, a factory owner, or -- heavens! -- an American, such as Winston Churchill's mother. The penniless man of the upper classes was either a younger son unlikely to inherit title, estate, and welath, or someone like Sir Felix Carbury, who'd squandered his inheritance and borrowed against his "great expectations." Whereas in "Nous Avons Changé Tout Cela" the artist comments on woman willing to marry an unsuitable man, here he comments on the results of a man marrying a homely women just for money.
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Bibliography
English Society. Sketched by George du Maurier. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1897.
Created 1 July 2001
Last modified 1 May 2020