* 1313 Svengali mesmerises Trilby – ' The roof of your mouth is like the dome of the Pantheon ' from Trilby ( G. du Maurier ) ( 3751 / E162 ).

The libretto of John Barnett's 1834 opera, The Mountain Sylph, is also adapted from Trilby, via the ballet La Sylphide.

Trilby is set in the 1850s in an idyllic bohemian Paris.

Trilby O ' Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists ' model and laundress ; all the men in the novel are in love with her.

The relationship between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu but it is a crucial one.

Trilby is 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 higher ; 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.

Trilby is referenced several times in William Gaddis ' novel, JR, wherein Edward Bast the protagonist becomes a mirror of Little Billee, a prominent artist in Trilby.

The character Little Billee in Trilby is a reference to an eponymous ballad by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Svengali is a fictional character in George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.

The novel is less a discussion of the relationship between Svengali and Trilby than an evocation of " bohemian " Paris during the 1850s.

He is finally driven to write fiction himself and he astonishes James and the entire literary world by producing the bestselling novel Trilby.

Much of Lodge's book is built upon James ' own obsession with attracting a larger readership than his opaque books have yet garnered and the success of Trilby both baffles and annoys him.

While du Maurier and Trilby have all but faded from the public view, James ' body of work has continued to attract readers worldwide and his position as one of the most important figures in literature is now secure.

Val Prinsep also worked in Paris in Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre's atelier: ' Taffy ' in his friend George du Maurier's novel Trilby, is said to have been sketched from him.

He is extremely annoyed at Chuck for dating Joni, but at the end of the novel seems to be developing a friendship with Trilby Pope, Infinite Darlene's arch-rival.

He is related to many Australian performers, being the brother of novelistVirginia Duigan ( wife of director Bruce Beresford ) and uncle of Trilby Beresford.

Brigadier G and his team arrive in time, and Trilby is discovered to be a spy for the villains.

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier ( 6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896 ) was a French-born British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby.

His second novel Trilby, was published in 1894.

Nodier's 1822 novel Trilby, ou le lutin d ' Argail provided the inspiration for La Sylphide, 1822, to a scenario devised by Adolphe Nourrit.

In 1870, the novel was adapted for a ballet titled Trilby by the great choreographer Marius Petipa, balletmaster of the Tsar's Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Public perceptions of the alternative lifestyles supposedly led by artists were further molded by George du Maurier's highly romanticized best-selling novel of Bohemian culture Trilby ( 1894 ).

Trilby inspired Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera ( 1910 ).

An inside look at Trilby and Henry James's friendship with Du Maurier ( Kiki ) can be found in David Lodge's novel Author, Author ( 2004 ).

The hat's name derives from the stage adaptation of George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby ; a hat of this style was worn in the first London production of the play, and promptly came to be called " a Trilby hat ".

In the novel, Svengali transforms Trilby into a great singer by using hypnosis.

The plot bears some resemblance to George du Maurier's 1894 novel Trilby.

George Grossmith, Jr. and Edward Laurillard managed the theatre from 1920 to 1923, presenting a series of plays and revivals, including Such a Nice Young Man by H. F. Maltby ( 1920 ) and the stage version of George Du Maurier's novel Trilby ( 1922 ).

They have a daughter, Trilby who published her first novel, Medina Hill, in October 2009.

Many of these rude boys started wearing sharp suits, thin ties, and pork pie or Trilby hats ; inspired by American gangster movies, jazz musicians and soul music artists.

It was also known for introducing the phrase " in the altogether " ( meaning " completely unclothed ") and the term " Svengali " for a man with dominating powers over a ( generally female ) protegee, as well as indirectly inspiring the name of the Trilby hat, originally worn on stage by a character in the play.

The play was so popular that it was travestied, including as A Model Trilby ; or, A Day or Two After Du Maurier by Charles H. E. Brookfield and William Yardley, with music by Meyer Lutz, at the Opera Comique, produced by the retired Nellie Farren.

Over the next decades, Adler would play in ( or, in some cases, merely produce ) numerous plays by Gordin, but also classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Lessing ; Eugène Scribe's La Juive ; dramatizations of George du Maurier's Trilby and Alexandre Dumas, fils ' Camille ; and the works of modern playwrights such as Gorky, Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Gerhart Hauptmann, Victor Hugo, Victorien Sardou, and Leonid Andreyev.

He was known as William or Norman, and by the nickname Trilby.

Nourrit's scenario was loosely based on a story by Charles Nodier, Trilby, ou Le lutin d ' Argail, but swapped the genders of the protagonists — a goblin and a fisherman's wife in Nodier ; a sprite and a farmer in the ballet.

Classic works of this Urban Gothic include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ), George du Maurier's Trilby ( 1894 ), Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery ( 1897 ), Henry James ' The Turn of the Screw ( 1898 ), and the stories of Arthur Machen.

* McNaught, W. " George du Maurier and Trilby.

Tree's next notable hit was George du Maurier's Trilby, later in 1895.

During the run of George Edwardes's An Artist's Model ( 1895 ), Stuart wrote several numbers that were interpolated ( including " The Soldiers of the Queen ", which was later famous as " Soldiers of the King "), and both wrote the lyric and composed " Trilby Will Be True " for Maurice Farkoa to perform at Daly's Theatre.

* In Chapter LI, Braxmar says he has read George du Maurier's Trilby.

He wrote an autobiography, which may have influenced George du Maurier in his writing of Trilby.