Talk:Elinor Glyn

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References are needed! Zora 08:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC) (who is proofreading an Elinor Glyn novel for Distributed Proofreaders right now!)

Jersey is most certainly not in England. It may be a stretch to call her British, but that's the change I'll propose (and make). The Jade Knight (talk) 06:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Orthography

«Elspeth Rhys-Williams, later Chowdhary-Best.» citations use two other spellings of this surname. Jersey (see above) is geographically part of Normandy but has the same sovereign as England does.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 06:22, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Spouse Details

Anthony Clayton Glyn occurs in the detailed family history article of the Glyn Baronets in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (latest known to me 1999), and from that I am adding further details about him in this article. I am citing it to that work so I will delete the phrase "according to her grandson Anthony Glyn".Cloptonson (talk) 11:12, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Caroline Glyn

I was surprised to see a merely incidental mention of EG's great-grandaughter Caroline. The reference to her in the paragraph on Sir Anthony Glyn's life was "...and they had one daughter Victoria (one other daughter, Caroline, died in 1981)". One wonders if the original source of this briefest of genealogically-obligatory mentions has it just the same. Certainly, Sir Anthony's life was peripatetic and somewhat eccentric. And he too was an author. Whereas Caroline's first book - Don't Knock the Corners Off - published when she was just 15, caused a literary sensation, earning rave reviews (Time even called it the best novel by a 15 year old ever written) and being rapidly translated into French which edition was also a bestseller. By age 21 she had written four more novels and subjected to relentless press scrutiny. Profiled in depth in Life magazine (May 13, 1966) on occasion of a family visit to Greenwich Village, she spoke of her restlessness and spiritual longings: a year later she chose to enter a contemplative order of Anglican nuns, the Poor Clares of NSW, Australia. She remained there until her death in 1981. She died whilst scrubbing a floor: a congential heart defect known from her infancy and one which, according to her mother, substantially affected her life expectancy and in consequence her outlook. Something of a "free spirit", she was unconventional even by the standards of her somewhat singular family and a social class long imbued with eccentricity. According to Robert Temple (one of her very few close friends: he wrote her obituary for The Times but which was never published "because of objections by her family"), she was "psychologically wholly incapable of living in the world" - and she seemed to fear her father. A talented artist, her second book was based upon her lonely experiences in Paris where she went to study art after the sensation of her debut, and she illustrated several of her later books, the last being written in 1977. A memorial to her at Chawton Church in Hampshire (home also to Jane Austen) was unveiled in 1987.

Anyway, I hope to start an article on her soon. meanwhile more info at:

http://www.robert-temple.com/friends/caroline_glyn2.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/LIFE.html?id=IVYEAAAAMBAJ&redir_esc=y

http://tonyshaw3.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/caroline-glyn-in-chawton-hampshire-and.html Plutonium27 (talk) 05:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Genealogy or Descendants?

Since this section lists only descendants of Glyn, shouldn't it be called that? "Genealogy" sound like something that would include ancestors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.205.88 (talk) 20:58, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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rewrite needed

The career section needs to be rewritten. It is confusing and probably repetitive. It remains poorly cited. 100.15.129.3 (talk) 11:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

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"It"

This term, used of a quality of allure that could captivate and even destroy, was first used by Kipling in his story "Mrs. Bathurst" (1904). Esedowns (talk) 23:12, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Not a Kipling story I am familiar with. Thank you, 99.228.43.228 (talk) 18:52, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Pronunciation?

Glyn may be pronounced either Glin or Gleen. North America tends to opt for Glin, but that is not conclusive as we are discussing a Briton. 142.205.202.71 (talk) 18:56, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Most British people would certainly pronounce it as Glin. Ponsonby100 (talk) 19:07, 17 November 2023 (UTC)