Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered

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The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictive biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.Unlike typical romances, which end with wedding bells, Elinor Glyn's 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. 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 by the British aristocracy or the Anglo-American literary establishment.In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Glyn's meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood's glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen's greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term It Girl, which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution.With Inventing the It Girl, Hallett has done nothing less than elevate the origins of the modern romance genre to a subject of serious study. In doing so, she has also reclaimed the enormous influence of one of Anglo-America's most significant cultural tastemakers while revealing Glyn's life to have been as sensational as any of the characters she created on the page or screen. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of a courageous icon of independence who encouraged future generations to chase their desires wherever they might lead.

FORMATCompact Disc LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Author Biography

Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American studies and associate professor of history at Columbia University. The author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, she has written for the Los Angeles Times and Lit Hub.Pamela Almand, a former international 747 pilot for Delta Airlines, launched an unlikely second career after appearing in a national television spot for Tylenol in 1995. Several regional spots for Northwest Airlines followed, and she began narrating training and industry videos, built a professional recording studio, and launched the Captain's Voice. Since then, Pamela has provided voice-over for major corporate clients worldwide, including Microsoft, Disney, Canadian Realtors, the United Nations, Zurich, International Red Cross, and the hotels and casinos of Monte Carlo. She is a SAG/AFTRA voice actor and audiobook narrator with multiple awards and nominations from the Audio Publishers Association's Audie Awards, Society of Voice Arts and Sciences' Voice Arts Awards, and AudioFile magazine's Earphones Award. She lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida, with her husband, Amos.

Review

Inventing the It Girl is exquisitely researched and truly addictivea must-read for anyone beguiled by early Hollywood.-- "Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can't Even"[A] page-turning account...Hallett is equally at home chronicling the contours of Glyn's life, decaying English aristocracy, and the glamour of Hollywood, easily conjuring her subject and the events and cultural shifts that shaped her. This one brings the goods.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[A] page-turning account...This one brings the goods.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[Elinor Glyn] brought style and sophistication to a still-parochial Hollywood...How this powerhouse creature could have gone so long without due recognition is a mystery, but Hilary A. Hallett has more than corrected the oversight in this rich and riveting biography.-- "Molly Haskell, author of From Reverence to Rape"[Hallet's] meticulous research, graceful prose, and historical insights grab and hold the reader's interest from first page to last.-- "David Nasaw, author of The Last Million"Glamorous, sexy, enticing, brilliant, stylish, sophisticated: One quickly runs out of adjectives to describe both Elinor Glyn and the book Hilary Hallett has written about her...Glyn is blessed by having Hallett as her biographer. Her meticulous research, graceful prose, and historical insights grab and hold the reader's interest from first page to last.-- "David Nasaw, author of The Last Million"In Inventing the It Girl, the 'Tiger Queen' of romance fiction finally gets the serious treatment she deserves.-- "Heather Clark, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author"With Inventing the It Girl, Hallett reintroduces us to Madame Elinor Glyn, author, scenarist, and social agitator...As Hollywood's arbiter of both good taste and sex appeal, Glyn turned Victorian moralism into sexual liberation, and the world was never the same again.-- "William J. Mann, author of Tinseltown"

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"With Inventing the It Girl, Hallett reintroduces us to Madame Elinor Glyn, author, scenarist, and social agitator...As Hollywood's arbiter of both good taste and sex appeal, Glyn turned Victorian moralism into sexual liberation, and the world was never the same again."

Details ISBN Author Pamela Almand Short Title Inventing the It Girl Language English Year 2022 ISBN-13 9798212005814 Publication Date 2022-07-26 Subtitle How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood Publisher Blackstone Publishing Format Compact Disc Imprint Blackstone Publishing Playing time 974 Narrator Pamela Almand Audience General We've got this

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