This book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Glyn by film scholars and literary and feminist historians, and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research. Glyn has become a peripheral figure in histories of this period, marginalized in accounts of the youth-centred ‘flapper era’.
They were viewed by the judiciary as scandalous, but by others-Hollywood and the Spanish Catholic Church-as acceptably conservative. She was beloved by readers of romance, and her films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas. Decades on the ‘It Girl’ remains in common currency, defining the sexy, sassy and alluring young woman. Her racy stories were turned into films – most famously, Three Weeks (1924) and It (1927). In the magazines she gave tips on beauty and romance, on keeping your man, and on the contentious issue of divorce. Abstract This introduction to British Elinor Glyn's life and legacy reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Glyn by film scholars and literary and feminist historians, and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research.Įlinor Glyn was a celebrity figure in the 1920s.
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