In 1907 she achieved notoriety with the publication of Three Weeks, the story of a passionate adulterous affair between an English gentleman and a mysterious foreign noblewoman. Subsequent novels were romances with the same setting. She began her career as a writer in 1898, with a series of fashion articles, but first gained recognition the following year with the publication of her first book, The Visits of Elizabeth, a light-hearted view of the social world in which she moved. She entered English high society and in 1892 married Clayton Glyn, a wealthy landowner. After the early death of her father, Elinor was raised in Jersey at the home of her mother's second husband. Her father, Douglas Sutherland, was distantly related to the Scottish Lords Duffus. Her mother, also called Elinor, came from an Anglo-French family who had settled in Canada. Elinor Glyn was born Elinor Sutherland on October 17th 1864.
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