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Trilby O'Ferrall, a tone deaf, half-Irish laundress, she falls under the spell of Svengali, who through hypnotism, turns her into the talented singing sensation "la Svengali," but only when she is under his hypnosis. | Trilby O'Ferrall, a tone deaf, half-Irish laundress, she falls under the spell of Svengali, who through hypnotism, turns her into the talented singing sensation "la Svengali," but only when she is under his hypnosis. | ||
| − | The novel gave us the term "Svengali;" partly inspired Gaston Leroux's novel '' | + | The novel gave us the term "Svengali;" partly inspired Gaston Leroux's novel ''[[:Category:Phantom of the Opera|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (1910); and named a hat called the trilby. |
[[Category:1894]] | [[Category:1894]] | ||
Revision as of 07:53, 5 September 2013
Female singer from the George Du Maurier novel Trilby, set in 1850s Paris. First published as a serial in 1894 in Harper's Monthly, it was published in book form in 1895.
Trilby O'Ferrall, a tone deaf, half-Irish laundress, she falls under the spell of Svengali, who through hypnotism, turns her into the talented singing sensation "la Svengali," but only when she is under his hypnosis.
The novel gave us the term "Svengali;" partly inspired Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera (1910); and named a hat called the trilby.
