Elinor Glyn Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Elinor Glyn NPG D42398
© National Portrait Gallery, London
after Claude Harris
The Romantic novelist, best known for her risqué book Three Weeks (1907). Seen here posing with her two marmalade coloured cats, which she named 'Candide' and 'Zadig' as a tribute to Voltaire. Glyn was 67 when this photograph was taken and swore by her beauty tips of keeping her face looking young by regularly scrubbing her face with a dry nail brush until it appeared crimson. Glyn invented 'It' defining sex appeal and wrote the screenplay for the film starring Clara Bow who... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.









