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Elinor Glyn

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born

in Saint Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, The United Kingdom

October 17, 1864

died

September 23, 1943

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Romance

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Elinor Sutherland was born in St Helier, Jersey, the younger daughter of Douglas Sutherland (1838–1865), a civil engineer of Scottish descent, and his wife Elinor Saunders (1841–1937).

Her father died when Elinor was two months old and her mother returned to the parental home in Guelph, Ontario, Canada with her two daughters, Lucy Christiana and Elinor.

Back in Canada, Elinor was schooled by her grandmother, Lucy Anne Saunders, in the ways of upper-class society. This early training not only gave her an entrée into aristocratic circles on her return to Europe, but it led to her being considered an authority on style and breeding when she worked in Hollywood in the 1920s.

Her mother remarried a Mr. Kennedy in 1871 and when Elinor was eight ye...more

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Elinor Glyn's Books

Average rating: 3.26 · 195 ratings · 42 reviews · 40 distinct works · Similar authors

	Three Weeks 3.16 of 5 stars 3.16 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1907 — 17 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man and Maid 3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1922 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Rocks 3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1906 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vicissitudes of Evangeline by Elinor Glyn, Barbara Cartland 3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1905 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Hour 3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1910 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Visits of Elizabeth 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1900 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn, Edmund Frederick (Illustrator) 3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1911 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Days 3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1924	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Moment by Elinor Glyn, Barbara Cartland 2.8 of 5 stars 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1923 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn, Edmund Frederick (Illustrator) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1917	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Elinor Glyn

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn

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“The minds of some human beings are as moles, grubbing in the earth for worms. They have no eyes to see God's sky with the stars in it.”
― Elinor Glyn

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“Nice feelings are for people who have money to live as they please. If I had ten thousand a year, or even five, I would snap my fingers at all men, and say, 'No, I make my life as I choose, and shall cultivate knowledge and books, and indulge in beautiful ideas of honor and exalted sentiments, and perhaps one day succumb to a noble passion.”
― Elinor Glyn, The Vicissitudes of Evangeline

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