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Author Barnett, Vincent L

Title Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman / by Vincent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon
Published Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014

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Contents Becoming a writer: Glyn's early British career -- Transatlantic girl: publishing in America -- Hollywood star: negotiating the rights to film adaptations -- Three weeks: novel, play and film -- Contracts in conflict: the royalties received from Glyn's films -- It: novella, film and Clara Bow -- Back to Britain: Glyn in the 1930s
Summary Examining the authorial and cross-media practices of the English novelist Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), Vincent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon trace Glyn's work as a novelist in the United Kingdom, her success in Hollywood as an adaptor, her relationships with important figures in the Hollywood studio system and her reworking of her stories as plays and movies. Informed by extensive archival work, their book will appeal to historians of film, culture, publishing and business
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Glyn, Elinor, 1864-1943.
SUBJECT Glyn, Elinor, 1864-1943 fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Form Electronic book
Author Weedon, Alexis
ISBN 9781472421838
1472421833