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Trilby

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Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siΓ¨cle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siΓ¨cle period after Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

The story of the poor artist’s model Trilby O’Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and Trilby, Florida were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) came to be called a trilby.

The plot inspired Gaston Leroux’s 1910 potboiler Phantom of the Opera and the innumerable works derived from it, and introduced the phrase β€œin the altogether” (meaning β€œcompletely unclothed”) to the English language.

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