Three Weeks
By Elinor Glyn
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English aristocrat Paul Verdayne is sent to Lucerne to break up his unsuitable love affair with the parson’s daughter. The Lady is a Balkan queen on the run from her cruel husband. And so begins their passionate three-week affair, which ends only when the Lady leaves to return to her country. A sensation when first published in 1907, Three Weeks was remarkable for its overt theme of adultery and abundant depictions of its characters’ kisses and caresses, and sold over five million copies to scandalized readers. Three Weeks was later made into a silent film starring Aileen Pringle and Conrad Nagel.
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Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn was a British writer best known for pioneering mass-market women’s erotic fiction and popularizing the concept of the “It Girl,” which had a profound influence on 20th century popular culture and the careers of Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow. In addition to her work as a scriptwriter for silent movies, Glyn was one of the earliest female directors. Elinor Glyn’s elder sister was fashion designer Lady Duff-Gordon, who survived the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Over the duration of her career Glyn penned more than 40 works including such titles as Three Weeks, Beyond the Rocks, and Love’s Blindness. Elinor Glyn died in 1943.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A high rating for this extraordinary book. Not for its literary quality, gawdelpus, but for the enormous pleasure to be derived from reading it, with its glorious, unintentional, comic qualities!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 1907 equivalent of 50 Shades of Grey, panned by critics but setting readers’ hearts aflutter. Handsome and athletic young Englishman Paul Verdayne is sent abroad by his family to recover from an unfortunate romance with a girl below his class. In Switzerland, he meets an older Mysterious Lady, who affects a bright red slash of lipstick against a pale complexion (Perhaps author Elinor Glyn was modeling her heroine on the Marchesa Casati? I think the timing isn’t right; I don’t believe the Marchesa had adopted her trademark markup style by 1907). Said Mysterious Lady quickly seduces Paul – well, quickly by 1907 standards, mostly accomplished with a “strange kiss” – and they spend the titular three weeks engaged in very discretely described amatory activity; in the most risqué scene, he enters her rooms and finds her stretched out on a tiger skin, with a rose in her teeth (she’s clothed – it’s 1907, after all – but it’s a “close-fitting” garment). I can’t go any further, lest spoilers. Strangely fun. In a latter novel, Ms. Glyn coined the term “It” to describe sex appeal; when “It” was filmed, Clara Bow became the “It Girl”.