Here's the first line of the prologue: "This is an unconventional biography about an unconventional British woman, the late Victorian romance writer and celebrity author Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) who midwifed much of the sexual ethos of Anglo-American popular culture" and a bit later Hallett goes on to claim that Glyn was responsible for "devising, at the age of forty-three, the erotically focused modern romance novel with her great success-de-scandal, Three Weeks (1907)."
It should be noted, though, that Three Weeks does not have an optimistic ending for the central relationship.
Here's the first line of the prologue: "This is an unconventional biography about an unconventional British woman, the late Victorian romance writer and celebrity author Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) who midwifed much of the sexual ethos of Anglo-American popular culture" and a bit later Hallett goes on to claim that Glyn was responsible for "devising, at the age of forty-three, the erotically focused modern romance novel with her great success-de-scandal, Three Weeks (1907)."
It should be noted, though, that Three Weeks does not have an optimistic ending for the central relationship.