ABSTRACT
Elinor Glyn was one of the first popular authors to attempt to fully capitalize on these rights in various forms of early twentieth-century new media, and in doing so she helped to shape the cinematic mode of production of her era and beyond. Glyn herself was represented as an independent woman with a glamorous and highly-desirable life-style. Indeed, scenario writers were beginning to be portrayed in a very glamorous fashion in the cinema magazines. The very fact of Glyn's phenomenal commercial success effectively countered the old-fashioned notion that women could not be very active in the male-dominated workplace, even contrary to what the ideological content of their films sometimes portrayed. In the wider context, Glyn's self-confident ease with self-promotion of both her stories and her celebrity image was not that common amongst other literary authors in the early twentieth-century, at least in the UK.
