Halcyone

This early work by Elinor Glyn was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Halcyone is a novel about a young heroine and her romantic life. She was the youngest daughter of a civil engineer, Douglas Southerland, and his wife Elinor Saunders. Elinor Glyn began her writing career in 1900 and was a pioneer of the risqué and romantic fiction genre. She went on to write many popular books such as Beyond the Rocks (1906), Loves Blindness (1926), and It (1927), in which she coined the term It, meaning the animal magnetism that some individuals possess.