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Books that ruined an entire generation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilbyana
Women of the 1890s started smoking cigars and showing their feet to foot fetishists in dark alleys (to see the future)
Golden feet were sold in catalogs.
All because of a book where an old Jewish guy uses his occult power to hypnotize Trilby (who has the most beautiful feet in the world!) into becoming a famous opera singer
Advertisers got in on the craze
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A long read on "Trilbymania":
Trilbyana - The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel, by Joseph Benson Gilder & Jeannette Leonard Gilder
edit: disregard that long read it kind of sucks... it was only written in 1895 and Trilbymania went on for 20 more years
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When all those "unreasonable" preachers in the year 1900 were writing articles on "the novel" and the "the play" being a moral danger in society, they weren't r-slurred.
They weren't just mad that women would dare read books
or
They were thinking about 17 year old Trilbyanas mass mailing their foot pics to some french guy, and mailing dirty hypotism fanfic to eachother.
Also, the Trilby fans caused high society artist models to quit their job, when all these Trilbyanas wanted to be models
and kept gossiping about which models were like Trilby
The established models were like
And the Trilbyanas were like
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Was gonna say this should come back but honestly most women have ugly fricking feet
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