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 i...
| Main Author: | Hallett, Hilary A., 1968- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
[2022]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.