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Elinor Glyn (née Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards.
Aug 31, 2022 · The Original It Girl’s Remarkable Life Is Chronicled in a New Biography. Professor Hilary Hallett turns the saga of pioneering writer-director Elinor Glyn into a subject of serious study. Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, the story of Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) began after her marriage foundered.
Jul 26, 2022 · More than half a century before Stephen King’s “It” seized little children, Elinor Glyn’s “It” seized adult imaginations.
- Alexandra Jacobs
Aug 4, 2022 · So argues the historian Hilary A. Hallett in Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood.
May 25, 2018 · This introduction to Glyn's life and legacy reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Glyn by film scholars and literary and feminist historians, and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research.
- Alexis Weedon
- 2018
Mar 28, 2009 · It wasn’t until she published Three Weeks however, that Elinor Glyn began to rhyme with sin. Three Weeks was the story of a clandestine affair between Englishman Paul Verdayne and a mysterious older woman he meets while on vacation, whom he only knows as “The Lady.”
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An intensely erotic tale about an unhappily married woman’s sexual education of her young lover, the novel got Glyn banished from high society but went on to sell millions, revealing a deep yearning for a fuller account of sexual passion than permitted by the British aristocracy or the Anglo-American literary establishment.
