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Women of Words: 4: Elinor Glyn (1864-1943)

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Portraits of five writers
Written by Charlotte and Denis Plimmer
with Gwen Watford as Elinor Glyn

She ta;/ on the Ttf/er SMn. Between her lips a rose not redder than they.
Elinor Glyn's novel Three Weefes created a sensation when it was published in 1907. The most daring novelist of the Edwardian period, she was every bit as notorious as her most notorious heroine.

Contributors

Writer:
Charlotte Plimmer
Writer:
Denis Plimmer
Directed By:
Gerry Jones
Narrator:
John Punen
Sir Cecil Beaton/Governor of Nevada/Male reader/Bioscope voice:
John Church
The Lady/Female reader/Haughty woman:
Penelope Lee
Anthony Glyn/Paul/The onlooker voice:
Nigel Lambert
Mark Twain:
Leonard Fenton
Sam Goldwyn/Millionaire/ The Dctttt/ Telegraph voice:
Lee Harrington
Source: Radio Times

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