Elinor Glyn

Broschiertes Buch

His Hour

Beschreibung

This book contains Elinor Glyn's 1910 romance novel, "His Hour". It tells the story of a beautiful blonde Englishwoman who visits Russia. After being violently made love to by a young Russian aristocrat, a rather particular situation arises to complicate the romance. This early work of romance fiction is highly recommended for lovers of the genre, and it is a veritable must-read for fans of Glyn's work. Elinor Glyn (1864 - 1943) was a British writer famous for her scandalous romantic fiction. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Autor

Elinor Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialized in love fiction, which was deemed scandalous at the time, yet her works are very moderate by contemporary standards. She popularized the concept of the it-girl and had a huge impact on early 20th-century popular culture, maybe even on the careers of prominent Hollywood stars like Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, and, most notably, Clara Bow. Elinor Sutherland was born on October 17, 1864, in St Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. She was the younger daughter of Douglas Sutherland (1838-1865), a civil engineer of Scottish heritage, and his wife Elinor Saunders (1841-1937), from an Anglo-French family who had established in Canada. Her father was claimed to be linked to the Lords of Duffus. Her father died when she was two months old, and her mother went to the parental home in Guelph, Upper Canada, British North America (now Ontario), with her two daughters. Elinor was taught here by her grandmother, Lucy Anne Saunders, the daughter of Sir Richard Willcocks, an early Irish police magistrate who assisted in the suppression of the Emmet Rising in 1803.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Glyn Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781406767506
• ISBN-10: 1406767506
• Artikelnr.: 22892835