Elinor Glyn Papers
Scope and Contents
Dates
- undated
Creator
- Glyn, Elinor (Person)
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Biographical or Historical Information
Glyn's most popular book nearly ended her writing career. Three Weeks was called too "sensational" and was viciously attacked by nearly every London critic. The love scenes, tame by modern standards, were too explicit for what was still a Victorian press. By 1916 over two million copies of Three Weeks had been sold, and the book had been translated into virtually every European language. The financial success of Three Weeks was fortunate for Glyn because her husband had lost all his money by 1908, making her the sole support of her family. After Glyn's husband died in 1915, she increased the volume of her work and in 1917 signed a lucrative contract with William Randolph Hearst for the American rights to her novels. Her career as a film writer began in 1920, when Glyn was asked to write the screenplay for The Great Moment, starring Gloria Swanson. During the 1930s, Glyn lost most of her money in a failed attempt to start her own film production company. Both of the movies she produced and financed, Knowing Men and The Price of Things, were financial disasters. She returned to writing full-time and continued publishing novels until her death in 1943.
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0.01 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
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Creator
- Glyn, Elinor (Person)
- Title
- Elinor Glyn Papers
- Author
- Archives staff
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- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository