These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Yet despite being a hugely influential and instrumental figure in her day, until very recently Glyn has been a peripheral figure in histories of this period, an older woman marginalised in accounts of the youth-centred ‘flapper era’. Her formulation of the term was developed at the beginning of the century and became central to popular culture of the 1920s. This evokes Glyn’s original definition of ‘It’ where the sexual attraction and charisma was not linked to gender nor age, but to a person’s manner and sense of allure.

However, many other contemporary stars, including both older women and men, such as Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Matthew McConaughey, have also been credited with having ‘It’ on screen and off. Decades on, the idea of the ‘It Girl’ continues to be pertinent in the postfeminist discourses of the twenty-first century and has been applied by the world’s glamour press to up-and-coming young actresses and models from Marilyn Monroe and Edie Sedgwick to Alexa Chung and Kate Upton. She wrote articles for Cosmopolitan magazine on how to attract and keep men and ‘racy’ stories about love and romance, many of which were turned into films - most famously Three Weeks (Crosland, 1924) 1 and It (Badger, 1927). Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.55in - 0.Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) was a fêted English author and celebrity figure of the 1920s who - while in her 50s and 60s - was constantly in the Hollywood press.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Man and maid by elinor glyn