There, Glyn crafted the romantic aesthetic of Hollywood's golden Silent Age, coining the term "It"-a quality of magnetism she projected onto actresses like Clara Bow. Petersburg to Paris to Cairo before movie producers lured her to California in 1920. As she churned out novels, she consorted with world leaders from St. Paul Verdayne, wealthy English nobleman in his early twenties is caught embracing the parsons. When her husband, Clayton, gambled their fortune away, Glyn boldly became the first commercially successful writer to challenge the sexually straightjacketed literary code. Three Weeks is a 1907 erotic romance novel by Elinor Glyn. Hallett traces Glyn's meteoric rise for the first time, beginning where most romance novels end: with her marriage into the English gentry class in 1892. Society darling Elinor Glyn shocked her English peers with the 1907 publication of Three Weeks, an intensely erotic novel that launched her to international fame and infamy. biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn. "The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |