Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn's (1864-1943) story really began after her marriage up the social ladder and into the English gentry class in 1892. Born in the Channel Islands, Elinor Sutherland, like most Victorian women, aspired only to a good match. But when her husband, Clayton Glyn, gambled their fortune away, she turned to her pen and boldly challenged the era's sexually straightjacketed literary code with her notorious succes de scandale, Three Weeks (1907). An intensely erotic tale about an unhappily married woman's sexual education of her young lover, the novel got Glyn banished from high society bu…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63149-069-9
- EAN: 9781631490699
- Produktnummer: 37568063
- Verlag: Liveright Pub Corp
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.6 cm 794 g
- Gewicht: 794
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Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American studies and associate professor of history at Columbia University. The author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, she has written for the Los Angeles Times.
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