THE "IT" LADY Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger skin? Or would you prefer To err with her On some other fur? Mrs. Carruthers is dead. The cranky, traditional lady had intended her beautiful, vivacious ward, Evangeline to marry her heir, Christopher Carruthers, handsome diplomat. But independent twenty-year-old Evangeline is not so sure . . . It's the turn of a new century, after all . . . And wouldn't it be so much more fun to be an "adventuress?" Elinor Glyn became a best-selling novelist with books like Red Hair. In the nineteen twenties went to Hollywood to write and direct films. She transformed Gloria Swanson into a star, made Clara Bow the "It" girl and taught Rudoph Valentino how to kiss. In Stage Magazine, Moira Petty described Elinor Glyn as "the chick-lit author of the early 1900s, with a dash of Dorothy Parker and a dollop of Barbara Cartland." Love hot fiction? Red Hair is a must read.

Author Biography

Elinor Glyn (1864 - 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialized in romantic fiction that was considered scandalous for its time. Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards, she had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow in particular.