In the public eye ever since the days of the Commune, he had had success during the eighties as a destroyer of cabinets.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
Although he prepared for the bar, having passed the examination at twenty, and practised his profession for a few years, he soon set to writing short stories and novels which appeared in the early eighties.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
His satire, too, grows less pointed after the eighties, with an equivalent decline in the art by which it is conveyed.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood