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In time, even when the novel was largely forgotten, its title would be immortalised in the name of a hat.

He certainly succeeded: Trilby would become the sensation of the age, not just in Britain but in the United States. But owing to failing eyesight, du Maurier had begun to complement his illustrating work with novel-writing as a way of continuing to make a living from his pen. Du Maurier had made his name as an illustrator: in 1895 he was responsible for the famous ‘curate’s egg’ cartoon (with its complaisant curate assuring the vicar, concerning the bad egg he’d been served up, that ‘parts of it are excellent’), and he’d even been responsible for coining the phrase ‘bedside manner’ in a medical cartoon of 1884. He controls Trilby completely.The cartoonist’s name was George du Maurier and the novel is Trilby (1894). Shiksa Goddess: One unpleasant aspect of the novel is the fact that Svengali is an ugly anti-Semitic stereotype manipulating the beautiful Trilby.After she loses weight, she is described as weaker but more beautiful. In this form she is fun and sexy, but also seen as uncomfortably mannish. Trilby is initially presented as - not fat, exactly, but big and hale. Hypno Fool: Trilby can only sing when she's hypnotized and has no memory of her singing career when the spell is broken.Driven to Suicide: 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.His prescience often borders on, and is mistaken for, mind-reading. Beware the Mind Reader: 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.Free of Svengali's hypnotism, she's completely tone-deaf. The titular character has a wonderful singing voice that launches her to stardom.but only when she's been hypnotized by the sinister Svengali. Antagonist Title: At least one film adaptation of the book was called Svengali.The 1895 stage adaptation popularized the Trilby hat.

The novel is the Trope Namer for The Svengali.

It was written in 1894, and is about the title character who was hypnotized by the sinister Svengali to become a famous singer, although she (Trilby) was tone-deaf. Trilby is a novel by George Du Maurier (grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier).