Trilbyana

Trilbyana or Trilby-Mania was the fashion for things based on the story Trilby by George du Maurier.[1] This was especially popular during the 1890s.[2] The works included burlesques, cartoons, movies, parodies, plays, sketches and tableaux.[3]

Svengali and Trilby in the London theatrical production of 1895

References
  1. Levin, Joanna (2009), Bohemia in America, 1858–1920, Stanford University Press, p. 193, ISBN 9780804772549
  2. Purcell, L. Edward (1977), "Trilby and Trilby-Mania, The Beginning of the Bestseller System", The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume XI (1): 62–76, doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1977.1101_62.x
  3. Askari, Kaveh (2014), "Trilbyana: Transformation and Absorption", Making Movies Into Art: Picture Craft from the Magic Lantern to Early Hollywood, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 52, ISBN 9781844576975
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