# Trilby — Character guide

> Key figures in Trilby by George du Maurier.

- [Little Billee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/little_billee.md): Little Billee is the magnetic center of the bohemian circle in the Place St. Anatole des Arts, admired by Taffy, the Laird, and Trilby alike. His charm is inseparable from his sincerity, and the narrator insists he is 'f
- [Trilby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/trilby.md): Trilby is one of the two 'central figures' whose charm Taffy and the Laird only fully grasp once she is gone. She is funny without being vulgar, even in French, and her farewell letter — 'Oh, it has been a jolly time, th
- [Taffy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/taffy.md): Taffy is the reliable center of the Paris circle, the one who boxes and fences and keeps the studio running when others drift. After Trilby and Little Billee leave, he and the Laird drift into sad lunches at the Café de 
- [Svengali](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/svengali.md): Svengali hovers at the edge of the bohemian circle, disliked but not quite dismissible, a figure whose strange influence lingers even after he stops coming around. The narrator notes that 'even Svengali was missed, littl
- [Mrs. Bagot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/mrs_bagot.md): Mrs. Bagot arrives in Paris as part of the family trio — mother, son, and still more charming sister — whose departure leaves the studio desolate. She is remembered by Taffy and the Laird chiefly through the charm of her
- [Gecko](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/gecko.md): Gecko is part of the musical circle around Svengali, and his visits to the studio stop entirely once Trilby and Little Billee leave Paris. His devotion to his master is implied by his nickname and by the way the narrator
- [Marta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/marta.md): Marta belongs to the small, unglamorous circle that keeps Trilby's life running while artists and musicians chase their visions. Her devotion is absolute and unsentimental, the kind that asks nothing back and notices eve
- [The Laird](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/the_laird.md): The Laird shares the Place St. Anatole des Arts studio with Taffy, and together they form the steady, affectionate backdrop to Trilby and Little Billee's brighter orbit. His fractured French and eccentric turns of phrase
- [Dodor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/dodor.md): A friend and fellow artist in the Parisian circle.
- [Monsieur J⸺](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/monsieur_j.md): A minor acquaintance in the Parisian art world.
- [Sir Oliver Calthorpe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/trilby_se/characters/sir_oliver_calthorpe.md): A minor aristocratic figure in the story.

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