Elinor Glyn and Her Legacy


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This book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Elinor Glyn’s life and legacy 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. Elinor Glyn was a celebrity figure in the 1920s. In the magazines she gave tips on beauty and romance, on keeping your man and on the contentious issue of divorce. Her racy stories were turned into films – most famously, Three Weeks (1924) and It (1927). Decades on the ‘It Girl’ remains in common currency, defining the sexy, sassy and alluring young woman. She was beloved by readers of romance, and her films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas. They were viewed by the judiciary as scandalous, but by others—Hollywood and the Spanish Catholic Church—as acceptably conservative. Glyn has become a peripheral figure in histories of this period, marginalized in accounts of the youth-centred ‘flapper era’. This book features scholarship by Stacy Gillis, Annette Kuhn, Nickianne Moody, Caterina Riba and Carme Sanmartí, Lisa Stead, Karen Randell, and Alexis Weedonand includes, translated for the first time, the intertitles for Márton Garas, 1917 film of Three Weeks, Három hét by Orsolya Zsuppán. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review.







The Visits of Elizabeth


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Visits of Elizabeth" by Elinor Glyn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.




Six Days


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Elinor Glyn's 'Six Days' is a narrative tour de force which embodies the expressive prose and energetic dialogue characteristic of Glyn's early 20th-century works. The novel, revered as a classic of world literature, intricately navigates the nuanced emotional landscape of its characters, all within the compact span of six pivotal days. Glyn's unique ability to intertwine high society romance with astute psychological insight is displayed within the text, aligning her with contemporaries that explore the human condition through the lens of personal relationships, class tension, and societal expectations. This special edition from DigiCat Publishing enlivens Glyn's work for a contemporary audience, maintaining the work's historical literary context while offering modern accessibility through both print and ebook formats. Elinor Glyn, born in 1864, was a pioneering British novelist and scriptwriter renowned for her contributions to popular fiction and the glamourization of romance. The creation of 'Six Days' can be attributed to Glyn's profound understanding and interpretation of Edwardian high society's dynamics, coupled with her own experiences and observations from within such circles. Her writings prompted broader societal discourse on love and sexuality, often offering bold, sometimes scandalous, perspectives that resonated with, and occasionally incited, her readership. 'Six Days' is thus recommended to both enthusiasts of Glyn's expansive oeuvre and newcomers alike. Those interested in exploring themes of love, social power structures, and character introspection within a classic literary framework will find Glyn's work profoundly rewarding. This edition, carefully reproduced by DigiCat Publishing, ensures that the legacy of Elinor Glyn's storytelling continues to captivate minds and stir the hearts of a modern readership, honoring the passion that she so emphatically believed literature should convey.




Halcyone


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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Halcyone" by Elinor Glyn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.




Transforming Faces for the Screen


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This book brings together research from medical and film archives to illustrate the cultural impact of film and literature in its relationship to the discourse of plastic surgery in the 1920s. This different take on reading the body after the First World War enables students of multiple disciplines, and readers interested in both Hollywood and post-war culture, to understand some of the complexities of medical interventions gained after the First World War and the way in which they filtered into the world of Hollywood film making. It also allows readers who may not be familiar with these two 1920s stars to access the films of Lon Chaney and the books and films of Elinor Glyn and gain new insights into 1920s visual culture. For ease of readership, the book is organised so that each of the main chapters focuses on a particular film (either Lon Chaney or Elinor Glyn). This is particularly useful for use in the classroom or for online education. Readers can refer to the film directly, aided by illustrations of frames from the films. This book tells the story of how two stars of Hollywood film transformed their character’s faces on screen through a close reading of three films in the 1920s. It reveals how they applied their embodied knowledge of surgery and surgical procedures to broaden their audience’s emotional and intellectual understanding of the treatment of deformity and disability.




Three Weeks


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Love Across the Atlantic


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Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a 'special relationship', but throughout the cultural history of these two countries there have existed transatlantic 'special relationships' of another kind - affairs between British and American citizens who have fallen in love, with one another but often too with the idea(l) of that other place across the ocean. From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture. Looking at both historical and contemporary case-studies, drawn from across film, television, music, literature, news and politics, this is a timely intervention into the popular romantic discourse of US-UK relations, at a critical and transitional moment in the ongoing viability of the special relationship.




The Essential Elinor Glyn Collection


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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Elinor Glyn Beyond The Rocks The Damsel and the Sage Elizabeth Visits America Halcyone His Hour Man and Maid The Man and the Moment The Point of View The Price of Things The Reason Why Red Hair The Reflections of Ambrosine Three Things Three Weeks The Visits of Elizabeth