Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Elinor Glyn...
...book which added "It" to the vocabulary of the '20s enthralled readers on two continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...
Born on the isle of Jersey in 1864, Elinor Sutherland and her sister were brought up there and in Canada by her soon-widowed mother and various in-laws. In backwoods Ontario, the Sutherland girls were schooled in French and all the social graces. A ferociously aristocratic grandmother was a martinet on bearing, forever challenged the girls: "How would [you] behave on the steps of the guillotine...
...Brighton Baths. It was not until her mother remarried for money that Elinor was able to put her social training to use. With her red hair, green eyes, and powder-white face, she drew men in Paris and London like so many iron filings. When she was 26, four house-partying young gallants threw each other into a lake at 3 a.m., competing for her favors. This intrigued a longtime socialite bachelor named Clayton Glyn, who decided Elinor was just the girl for him. Elinor, in turn, took one look at his prematurely silvered hair and aristocratic bloodlines and decided...
...hired the public baths for two days so that his "Lorelei" could "swim up and down alone, naked, her long red hair, which when uncoiled reached her knees, trailing in the water behind her." But in a short two years all the romance had gone from their marriage. When Elinor confided to Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter, he took off for Monte Carlo...