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Book:Name: Hilary A Hallett - Inventing the It Girl (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 68.45 MB
Description:Title: Inventing the It Girl
Author: Hilary A. Hallett
Language: English
Year: 2022
Subjects: Epub3
Publisher: Liveright
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: N/A
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The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.
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 but went on to sell millions, revealing a deep yearning for a fuller account of sexual passion than permitted...
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