Inventing the it girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood /
Hallett, Hilary A., 1968-
Inventing the it girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood / Hilary A. Hallett. - First edition. - 448 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-432) and index.
Prologue: On Flappers and Their Philosophers -- Act I: Beauty. In the Library, Jersey, the Channel Islands, 1880 -- A Gentleman's Wife -- In Sickness and in Health -- Marry the Life, Not the Man -- Under Foreign Skies -- Act II: Glamour. Writing Three Weeks -- Trash -- The Word Became Flesh -- Surviving the Worst -- World Split in Two -- Act III: Power. At the Hollywood Hotel -- Babylon or Bohemia? -- The Elinor Glyn Touch -- Family Fortunes -- The It Girl -- Afterlives of a Tiger Queen.
"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 straightjacketed literary code. As she churned out novels, she consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Paris to Cairo before movie producers lured her to California in 1920. 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. Weaving deep archival research, Hallett presents Glyn as an icon of sexual and professional independence who would encourage new generations to chase their own desires wherever they led"--
9781631490699 1631490699
2022009212
GBC286462 bnb
020586249 Uk
Glyn, Elinor, 1864-1943.
Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.
Women travelers--Biography.
Biographies.
Inventing the it girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood / Hilary A. Hallett. - First edition. - 448 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-432) and index.
Prologue: On Flappers and Their Philosophers -- Act I: Beauty. In the Library, Jersey, the Channel Islands, 1880 -- A Gentleman's Wife -- In Sickness and in Health -- Marry the Life, Not the Man -- Under Foreign Skies -- Act II: Glamour. Writing Three Weeks -- Trash -- The Word Became Flesh -- Surviving the Worst -- World Split in Two -- Act III: Power. At the Hollywood Hotel -- Babylon or Bohemia? -- The Elinor Glyn Touch -- Family Fortunes -- The It Girl -- Afterlives of a Tiger Queen.
"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 straightjacketed literary code. As she churned out novels, she consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Paris to Cairo before movie producers lured her to California in 1920. 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. Weaving deep archival research, Hallett presents Glyn as an icon of sexual and professional independence who would encourage new generations to chase their own desires wherever they led"--
9781631490699 1631490699
2022009212
GBC286462 bnb
020586249 Uk
Glyn, Elinor, 1864-1943.
Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.
Women travelers--Biography.
Biographies.