Word: elinore
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Scented Boudoirs. Amid the frostbitten tubers of modern fiction, no one, but no one, digs Ouida's passion flowers. Her heroes and heroines had names like Fulke Ravensworth, Marion Lady Vavasour and Vaux or Sir Fulke Erceldorme. Elinor Glyn and her tiger skin were nothing to Ouida's scented boudoirs. Yet, in an age before Cinerama, she was a great descriptive writer, able to evoke Venice, Vienna, Chamonix without ever having paid them so much as a courtesy call...
...absentmindedness, are now writing novels about its loss in the same detached, faintly surprised style. Anthony Glyn, 35, is by heredity both an empire builder, with ancestors in the Canadian hinterland and personal service as an apprentice planter in British Guiana, and a novelist: his grandmother Elinor set the century's early decades aflame with Three Weeks. Grandson Glyn has written an insider's account of the last outposts...
...RUTH ELINOR TREND Bronxville...
...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...