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Elinor Glyn


Born
in Saint Helier, Jersey
October 17, 1864

Died
September 23, 1943

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Romance


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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Average rating: 3.4 · 1,071 ratings · 193 reviews · 230 distinct works • Similar authors
Three Weeks
3.21 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1907 — 140 editions
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The Vicissitudes of Evangeline
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The Reason Why
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Beyond the Rocks: A Love Story
3.54 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1906 — 93 editions
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Man and Maid
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The Visits of Elizabeth
3.53 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1900 — 92 editions
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His Hour
3.43 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1910 — 89 editions
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Halcyone
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1912 — 93 editions
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It
3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1927 — 14 editions
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The Reflections of Ambrosine
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“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
― Elinor Glyn
tags: inspiration, love, romance
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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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