![]() The 1910s and 1920s saw the development of intermodal networks between print, sound and screen cultures. ![]() Decades on, the idea of the ‘It Girl’ continues to have great pertinence in the post-feminist discourses of the twenty-first century. Glyn has become a peripheral figure in histories of this period, marginalized in accounts of the youth-centred ‘flapper era’. These were viewed by the judiciary as scandalous, but by others-Hollywood and the Spanish Catholic Church-as acceptably conservative. She wrote racy stories which were turned into films-most famously, Three Weeks (1924) and It (1927). She was a celebrity figure of the 1920s, and wrote constantly in Hearst's press. ![]() Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) was a British author of romantic fiction who went to Hollywood and became famous for her movies. ![]() This special issue of Women: A Cultural Review re-evaluates an author who was once a household name, beloved by readers of romance, and whose films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas. ![]()
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