Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.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. Historian Hilary A. 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.When her husband, Clayton, gambled their fortune away, Glyn boldly became the first commercially successful writer to challenge the sexually straightjacke…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63149-070-5
- EAN: 9781631490705
- Produktnummer: 37851963
- Verlag: Liveright
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 30 black-and-white images throughout
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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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