Elinor Glyn and Her Legacy

This book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Elinor Glyn’s life and legacy by film scholars and literary and feminist historians and offers a range of views of Glyn’s cultural and historical significance and areas for future research.

Karen Randell is Professor of Film Cultures and Visiting Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Her publications include: The War Body on Screen (2008), Re-framing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and The War on Terror (2010), The Dark Side of Love: From Euro-Horror to American Cinema (2011) and The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It¹s a Mad World (2013). She has collaborated with Alexis Weedon on a number of research publications.

Alexis Weedon is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. Her publications include Victorian Publishing: The Economics of Book Production for a Mass Market (2003), Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman (2014) and The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation (2021). Karen Randell and Alexis Weedon co-authored, Transforming Faces for the Screen: Horror and Romancein the 1920s (2023) on Lon Chaney and Elinor Glyn.