Inventing the It Girl
Hallett, Hilary A. (Columbia University)
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 su...