Inventing the It Girl
How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
Hilary A. Hallett
Inventing the It Girl
How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
Hilary A. Hallett
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English
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A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Selection
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.
"A new biography of Glyn, ‘Inventing the It Girl,’ by Hilary A. Hallett, restores her to the pantheon of history with great thoughtfulness and taste."
"Highly readable and deeply researched... Writing with the right touch of occasional humor, Ms. Hallett gracefully restores Glyn’s dignity, defines her intelligence and tells the full story of her remarkable life. She makes Elinor Glyn matter."
"Hallett’s sense of history makes this a biography rich in detail . . . . the “It Girl” and her creator had a profound impact on modern attitudes to love and sex — one that echoes today, long after Glyn’s name has faded, in a romance novel’s eternal promise to sweep the reader away."
"Hallett’s extensive knowledge of Elinor Glyn and her milieu are apparent... Inventing the It Girl is a must-read for anyone interested in early Hollywood, as well as readers who enjoy biographies of iconic women."
"[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."
"A brilliant, thought-provoking portrait of a forgotten 20th-century influencer. . . . Hallett creates a vivacious, intellectual, and fascinating narrative, and her impressive research effectively highlights an extraordinary life that aimed to ‘let loose the genie of women’s sexual liberation."
"Hallett’s biography puts Glyn’s glittering influence in its historical context. It’s a thoroughly readable chronicling of a woman whose influence spanned generations."
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 Slate.
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn.
"A new biography of Glyn, ‘Inventing the It Girl,’ by Hilary A. Hallett, restores her to the pantheon of history with great thoughtfulness and taste."
"Highly readable and deeply researched... Writing with the right touch of occasional humor, Ms. Hallett gracefully restores Glyn’s dignity, defines her intelligence and tells the full story of her remarkable life. She makes Elinor Glyn matter."
"Hallett’s sense of history makes this a biography rich in detail . . . . the “It Girl” and her creator had a profound impact on modern attitudes to love and sex — one that echoes today, long after Glyn’s name has faded, in a romance novel’s eternal promise to sweep the reader away."
"Hallett’s extensive knowledge of Elinor Glyn and her milieu are apparent... Inventing the It Girl is a must-read for anyone interested in early Hollywood, as well as readers who enjoy biographies of iconic women."
"[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."
"A brilliant, thought-provoking portrait of a forgotten 20th-century influencer. . . . Hallett creates a vivacious, intellectual, and fascinating narrative, and her impressive research effectively highlights an extraordinary life that aimed to ‘let loose the genie of women’s sexual liberation."
"Hallett’s biography puts Glyn’s glittering influence in its historical context. It’s a thoroughly readable chronicling of a woman whose influence spanned generations."
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 Slate.