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The novel is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali. The 1895 stage adaptation popularized the Trilby hat.
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The novel is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali. The 1895 stage adaptation popularized the Trilby hat.
hat. The novel also create a fashion craze inspired by the detailed description of the main character's feet, and craze paved way for the popularization of pedicures and celebrity feet pics.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The title character, having left her friends and supporters out of shame, contemplate throwing herself into the Seine; at the last moment she gives up and returns to her evil mentor Svengali.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The title character, having left her friends and supporters out of shame, contemplate contemplates throwing herself into the Seine; at the last moment she gives up and returns to her evil mentor Svengali.
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It has been adapted as a movie on more than one occasion, the most famous probably being the 1931 production ''Svengali'' starring Creator/JohnBarrymore in the title role.
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* BeautifulSingingVoice: Played with. The titular character has a wonderful singing voice that launches her to stardom...but ''only'' when she's been hypnotized by the sinister [[TheSvengali Svengali]]. Free of Svengali's hypnotism, she's completely tone-deaf.
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* BewareTheMindReader: Svengali is a manipulative and sociopathic character who uses his knowledge of hypnotism to get inside the minds of characters and force them into acts they would not otherwise commit. His prescience often borders on, and is mistaken for, mind-reading.
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It inspired ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
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* AntagonistTitle: The film adaptation of was called ''Svengali''.
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* AntagonistTitle: The At least one film adaptation of the book was called ''Svengali''.
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* AntagonistTitle: The film adaptation of was called ''Svengali''.
* DrivenToSuicide: The title character, having left her friends and supporters out of shame, contemplate throwing herself into the Seine; at the last moment she gives up and returns to her evil mentor Svengali.
* DrivenToSuicide: The title character, having left her friends and supporters out of shame, contemplate throwing herself into the Seine; at the last moment she gives up and returns to her evil mentor Svengali.
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* PunnyName: Trilby (trill-be).
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* PunnyName: MeaningfulName: Trilby (trill-be).(trill-be).
* RealWomenHaveCurves: Played with. Trilby is initially presented as -- not fat, exactly, but big and hale. In this form she is fun and sexy, but also seen as uncomfortably mannish. After she loses weight, she is described as weaker but more beautiful.
* RealWomenHaveCurves: Played with. Trilby is initially presented as -- not fat, exactly, but big and hale. In this form she is fun and sexy, but also seen as uncomfortably mannish. After she loses weight, she is described as weaker but more beautiful.
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* TheSvengali: TropeNamer. He controls Trilby completely.
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* TheSvengali: TropeNamer. He controls Trilby completely.completely.
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''Trilby'' is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier). It is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali. It was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. She also lent her name to a hat.
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The novel is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali. The 1895 stage adaptation popularized the Trilby hat.
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''Trilby'' is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier). It is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali, and from that link I stole that it was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. She also lent her name to a hat.
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''Trilby'' is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier). It is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali, and from that link I stole that it TheSvengali. It was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. She also lent her name to a hat.
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* HypnoFool: Trilby can only sing when she's hypnotized and has no memory of her singing career when the spell is broken.
* PunnyName: Trilby(trill-be).(trill-be).
* ShiksaGoddess: One unpleasant aspect of the novel is the fact that Svengali is [[https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/ttrilby.html an ugly anti-Semitic stereotype]] manipulating the beautiful Trilby.
* TheSvengali: TropeNamer. He controls Trilby completely.
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* HypnoFool: Trilby can only sing when she's hypnotized and has no memory of her singing career when the spell is broken.
* PunnyName: Trilby
* ShiksaGoddess: One unpleasant aspect of the novel is the fact that Svengali is [[https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/ttrilby.html an ugly anti-Semitic stereotype]] manipulating the beautiful Trilby.
* TheSvengali: TropeNamer. He controls Trilby completely.
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''Trilby'' is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier). It is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali, and from that link I stole that it was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. She also lent her name to a hat.
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''Trilby'' is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier). It is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali, and from that link I stole that it was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. She also lent her name to a hat.hat.
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''Trilby'' is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier). It is the TropeNamer for TheSvengali, and from that link I stole that it was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. She also lent her name to a hat.
