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	Trilby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A trilby or trilby hat is a soft felt men's hat with a narrow brim and a deeply indented crown.
		Trilby hats are softer than Homburgs, and have a flexible rather than curved brim.
		The novel's Trilby is described as having exceptionally pretty feet, which would cause a narrow indentation of the kind seen in trilby hats; some sources attribute the hat's name to this fact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trilby (218 words)

	Svengali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The relation between Svengali and Trilby forms only a small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of Bohemian Paris in the 1850s.
		Trilby O'Ferrall is literally tone-deaf: "Svengali would test her ear, as he called it, and strike the C in the middle and then the F just above, and ask which was the highest; and she would declare they were both exactly the same."
		Trilby is unable to sing in tune and is subjected to "laughter, hoots, hisses, cat-calls, cock-crows." Not having been hypnotised, she is completely baffled and cannot remember anything about Svengali or her singing career.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Svengali (430 words)

	Trilby & Svengali Research
		Trilby and Svengali is a free adaptation of the 1894 novel, Trilby, about a model turned diva, and Svengali, who mesmerizes her into fame and submission.
		Trilby is drawn to Svengali because of the way he can dissolve her physical and emotional pain through hypnosis.
		Trilby seems to submit to Svengali as her doctor-composer, but at the end of the play, she attempts to reverse this controlling gaze.
	uhaweb.hartford.edu /STRIFF/Trilby/trilbyresearch.htm (548 words)

	Trilby
		The novel's hero, Little Billee, is an artist who gains fame and fortune from his paintings; its heroine is a grisette, his true love, who models for him.
		he novel is about a studio of three artists from England and Scotland, the Laird, Taffy, and Little Billee; the grisette and model Trilby; and a Jewish hypnotist named Svengali who teaches Trilby to sing and uses her voice for his own purposes.
		Trilby meets and falls in love with Little Billee, but, like Fantine in Les Miserables, cannot stay with him because he is of a higher social class.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/ttrilby.html (620 words)

	Disciplining the Diva: Teaching Trilby to Sing
		Her voice, unlike Trilby's, "was just a light native warble, a throstle's pipe, all in the head and nose and throat (a voice he didn't understand, for once), a thing of mere youth and health and bloom and high spirits--like her beauty, such as it was--beauté du diable, beauté damnée" (45).
		Trilby's mouth and her throat, in particular, are described by Svengali in precise detail, compared originally to immense religious structures but, as he goes on, to musical instruments.
		While Trilby's case is different from Bompard's in that she does not commit any kind of criminal activity while under the "hypnotic influence" of Svengali, a form of criminal intent is nonetheless attached to Svengali by the other characters in the novel as well as the narrator.
	home.earthlink.net /~andersonrob/DiscipliningTheDiva.html (6218 words)

	novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The novel's importance as a historical document, then, is based more in the feelings of interdependent, artistic Bohemia than in any of its specific incidents or details.
		The novel's overriding concern is the recreation of this lifestyle, which the author -- and, presumably, his readers -- seemed to be a lot more interested in, and charmed by, than any contemporary reader is likely to be.
		From the novel "Trilby" by George Du Maurier.
	www.gbronline.com /rkr/novel.htm (1763 words)

	Trilby & Svengali
		Trilby was first published as an illustrated serial in America and became an instant success, attracting a larger audience than Dickens and becoming the first best-seller in American publishing.
		“Trilby-mania” began: Trilby hats were worn, scenes from Trilby were enacted at polite parties, young women referred to their feet as “Trilbies” and wore jewellery in the shape of Trilby’s perfect left foot.
		Today, the novel lives on in our understanding of the term “Svengali” for a cruel person who exerts a controlling or mesmeric influence over another.
	uhaweb.hartford.edu /STRIFF/Trilby/trilby.htm (278 words)

	Chapter Tribulation <i>to</i> Tripe of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		The first was Talbot Wynne, of Yorkshire, a man of magnificent physique, most affectionate disposition, and unbounded spirits; the second was the son of a solicitor; and the third was William Bagot, the greatest artist of the age.
		Trilby is represented as beautiful exceedingly, with model feet, a perfect figure, a loving disposition, ready to turn her hand to anything, and a perfect siren of angelic nature.
		Charles Nodier, in 1822, published a novelette of the same name, but this Trilby was a male spirit who attached itself to a fisherman, fell in love with his wife, and performed for her all kinds of household services.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1130/15053/2.html (713 words)

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		Svengali is a man who drives a woman to suicide by rejecting her (it's unclear whether he uses mind control to do so, but it is implied), poses as an artist to get Trilby to pose nude for him, and worst of all, hypnotizes Trilby into traveling as his wife when she is not.
		Trilby rejoined you, and you sent her to contact the Beetle.
		You found that she knew Trilby having sacrificed her parents in an obscene ceremony and involved her in orgiastic rites at a young age.
	www.vialarp.org /clarence/char_svengali.html (1371 words)

	History of Pasco County, Florida
		Trilby School in those days was the center for political rallies and for social life.
		The character as drawn by the author and given to the little waif about the streets of Paris had touched the railroad magnate with all its weird and grewsome phases, and when one of his officials came to him and asked what the new station should be named Mr.
		Practically the entire business section of Trilby, comprising a row of frame buildings occupied by stores, postoffice and express office, were destroyed by fire Friday afternoon, causing a loss of approximately $40,000, with insurance of not more than $5,000.
	www.fivay.org /trilby.html (2731 words)

	Trilby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Trilby by George Du Maurier is an interesting glimpse into the popular culture of 1850.
		In this novel, one is exposed to the art and the music and the climate of spiritualism that was very much a part of the times.
		In the final scenes of the novel, Gecko's devotion for Trilby causes him to strike Svengali when "Finally he struck her two or three smart blows on her knuckles with his baton, and she fell on her knees, weeping and crying..." (246).
	www.belltunes.com /Trilby.htm (732 words)

	Trilby (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trilby is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier published in 1894.
		It inspired Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" and introduced the word "svengali" to the English language.
		Article about Trilby on Mount Holyoke College's "Bohemianism and Counterculture" site.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trilby_(novel) (69 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| oct/nov 2004
		Trilby was thought to be the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century.
		Anybody who writes a novel about a real person, based on real facts, has a choice about how free they're going to be with the facts and how much they're going to add of their own invention.
		DL: I considered the English novel my main field, so as a scholar and critic I was always very interested in the transition from the classic realist novel of the nineteenth century to the modernist novel.
	www.bookforum.com /archive/Oct_04/lodge_intvw.html (2791 words)

	Predatory Hypnosis
		In the novel, Svengali, a middle-aged, unsuccessful musician, captured Trilby by a disguised induction, then hypno-trained her into a split personality (and a brilliant singer).
		Conceited, derisive, and malicious, he alternately bullies and fawns in a harsh, croaking voice...Though Trilby is repelled at first by his greasy, dirty appearance and regards him as a spidery demon or incubus, she becomes completely his creature under his hypnosis....Gecko...[is] a young fiddler, small, swarthy, shabby, brown-eyed, and pock-marked; a nail-biter.
		Trilby spotlighted the specific problem of hypnotic exploitation of women (and men) in the theater world.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/6514/105699 (2064 words)

	Hypnosis in Media: "Trilby" Part 7
		Trilby was unattainable, the Laird was quite strong and independent enough to get on by himself, and Taffy had concentrated all his faculties of protection and affection on Little Billee, and was equal to any burden or responsibility all this instinctive young fathering might involve.
		Trilby hugged and kissed her, and took off her bonnet and shawl, and made her sit down in a big arm-chair, and got her a foot-stool.
		Trilby had also picked up a little German, and with this and by means of signs, and no doubt through a long intimacy with each other's ways, they understood each other very well.
	www.hypnosisinmedia.com /Fiction/Trilby/trilby07.html (10324 words)

	Trilby
		In "Trilby" he has displayed a strong grasp of his subject and the screen possibilities, a wealth of imagination, and an amazing knack of injecting "atmosphere." The Latin Quarter and its lovable characters as presented in "Trilby" is one of the most charming phases of the Equitable production.
		"Trilby" follows more closely the story of the play than the novel, and wisdom is shown in eliminating characters that might have produced a diversity of interest on the screen.
		She was pert rather than innocent and childish; there was little variation between Trilby O'Ferral and La Svengali; and when she died it seemed not because the vitality of her demoniac master had passed from her, but because she fell down and bumped her pretty little head.
	www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/CKY/reviews/trilby.htm (1656 words)

	Amazon.com: Trilby (Oxford World's Classics): Books: George Du Maurier,Dennis Denisoff,Elaine Showalter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The story of the tragic Trilby, who cannot sing a note to save her life, and how she is moulded into the singer who takes Europe by storm, by the evil (?)(i'm not sure) musician Svengali, who uses mesmerism of some kind to play her as an instrument.
		Trilby, in her last years, is highly enough respected to have elevated even the great William Bagot, rather than dragged him down.
		Trilby is the popular 1890s novel which introduced the word "svengali" into the English language.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192833510?v=glance (2054 words)

	Hypnosis in Media: "Trilby" (Fiction)
		The story by George du Maurier that forever embedded in the public mind the stereotypical image of the mad hypnotist with staring eyes and his submissive female subject.
		You all know the story: how beautiful but tone deaf Trilby O'Ferrall is transformed into a talented singer by the hypnotist and singing master Svengali.
		Trilby being hypnotized by Svengali before a performance.
	www.hypnosisinmedia.com /Fiction/Trilby (165 words)

	§18. George Du Maurier. XIII. Lesser Novelists. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The province which George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier added in his best known novel Trilby (1894) was of a different kind; the book is our English Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, appropriate omissions being made; it fails in the attempt to delineate the artist of genius.
		As in this writer’s other novels, Peter Ibbetson (1891) and The Martian (1896), the story is helped out by fanciful occultism and by melodrama which is stark staginess.
		The charm of each of the books is found in the chasse des souvenirs d’enfance, in the pictures of schools and studios at Passy, Paris and Antwerp, and of early comradeships with Whistler, Poynter, Lamont and the rest; Taffy in Trilby is one of the great Victorian sentimental characters.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/223/1318.html (268 words)

	Trilby discounts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of that period alongside Dracula and Sherlock...more
		Reading "Trilby" is like listening to a lively, friendly raconteur taking you into his confidence.
		I have to disagree with the reviewer who commented that this novel is at best a curiosity and that it deserved to fade into obscurity.
	www.peakshopping.net /trilby-shopping.html (282 words)

	Gothic and Horror Fiction Quiz - Answers
		A classic southern novel follows the life of a young boy who runs away from the West Virginia mountains and makes his way to Haiti where he marries and then leaves a planter’s daughter, making his way back to the U.S. where the big story unfolds and a gothic doom prevails.
		Name the first novel (later adapted as a Hammer Studio film) in which a werewolf is portrayed as a victim, his transformation being the result of a curse.
		In 1957 a British author published a novel in which all the women in a certain village are impregnated on the same night and give birth to mysterious children.
	www.barcelonareview.com /22/e_quiz_ans.htm (614 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The relation between Svengali and Trilby form only a relatively small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of Bohemian Paris in the 1850s.
		It is frequently any kind of coach who seems to exercise an extreme degree of domination over a performer (especially if they believe they can only perform in the presence of their coach).
		The Svengali deck is a mechanical card trick with no connection to the Du Maurier novel.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Svengali (448 words)

	1896: Literary Themes
		Trilby featured the story of a young singer hypnotized and manipulated by her trainer, an older man named Svengali.
		The phrase "he was a Svengali to her Trilby" is still in occasional use today; audiences in 1896 would have recognized it much more easily.
		Poor Trilby and poor DuMaurier, both have gone strangely to the hearts of men, and it is to the credit of men and women that Trilby gets still from them a tear for every frown.
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/literary.html (1130 words)

	theBookseller.com - Hang-ups, rivalry and envy
		Lodge's novel, however, contrasts this failure with the simultaneous stellar success of James' friend George du Maurier, with his hit novel Trilby.
		Historically he was perhaps the first writer-critic in England to present the novel quite explicitly as a high art form, not just as entertainment.
		He saw himself as somebody who was bringing ideas of the novel from the Continent, from France particularly, to England, and historically he now seems the first modern novelist of the English language.
	www.thebookseller.com /?pid=84&did=12653 (965 words)

	Amazon.com: Kings of Infinite Space: Books: James Hynes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		But for Paul Trilby, who works in just such an office, life in a cubicle, so he thought, was the least of his concerns.
		Paul Trilby is a classic everyman down on his luck (granted, his current predicament is entirely his fault).
		Paul Trilby, a failed professor with a troubling past (especially with women and a cat named Charlotte) finds himself as a temp at the Texas Department of General Services, with some of the wackiest co-workers you will ever meet.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031245645X?v=glance (2613 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		type of hat, 1897, in allusion to Trilby O'Ferrall, eponymous heroine of the novel by George du Maurier (1834-96), published in 1894.
		In the stage version of the novel, the character wore this type of soft felt hat.
		In plural, also slang for "feet" (1895), in allusion to the eroticism attached to the heroine's bare feet.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=trilby&searchmode=phrase (81 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Trilby (Oxford World's Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O'Ferrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has entered the mythology of the time alongside Dracula and Sherlock Holmes.
		Immensely popular for a number of years, the novel led to a hit play, a series of popular films, and the trilby hat.
		This deservedly famous novel, partly autobiographical, by the father of Daphne du Maurier, is absolutely fascinating.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192833510 (765 words)

	Secret, Don't Tell - CD - Hidden Mysteries Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		From corrupt therapists to unethical researchers to secretive government agencies, Svengalis have victimized the unsuspecting and the imprudent.
		He began Trilby's conditioning by persuading her to agree to a Mesmer-style induction by passes:
		augenblick!...with one wave of his hand over her-with one look of his eye-with a word-Svengali could turn her into the other Trilby, his Trilby, and make her do whatever he liked...you might have run a red-hot needle into her and she would not have felt it...
	www.hiddenmysteries.com /item600/item603.html (2064 words)

	Deflating James
		But novelty alone cannot redeem the resulting failure; his newest novel is thoroughly researched and ably written, but it is disappointingly inert.
		A less public event but, according to Lodge, also deeply painful was the successful publication of "Trilby," a novel by du Maurier, a talented magazine illustrator (and grandfather, incidentally, to novelist Daphne du Maurier).
		Far more seriously for the novel, however, is the callous lack of generosity and sympathy James displays in, for example, his shabby treatment of du Maurier.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/31/RVG8G9DIHV1.DTL&type=printable (976 words)

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