Elinor Glyn

Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction that was considered scandalous for its time. She popularized the concept of It. Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards, she had tremendous influence on early 20thcentury popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow in particular.

Elinor Sutherland was born onOctober 1864 in Saint Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. She was the younger daughter of Douglas Sutherland , a civil engineer of Scottish descent, and his wife Elinor Saunders , of an AngloFrench family which had settled in Canada. Her father was said to be related to the Lords Duffus

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