Glyn, Elinor (1864–1943)

English writer. Her novel of an exotic love affair, Three Weeks 1907, scandalized Edwardian society. She also wrote The Career of Katherine Bush 1917.

Born in Jersey, she spent part of her youth in Canada. She modelled her fictional heroes upon her husband, Clayton Glyn, whom she described as ‘instinctively the perfect grand seigneur’. Her earliest novel was The Visits of Elizabeth 1900, said to have been based on her diary, which at once made her name. The best known, however, was Three Weeks. Later novels were Man and Maid 1925 and The Price of Things 1930.