Welcome to another episode of The History Islands. Elinor Glyn has now arrived in Hollywood, at the dawn of its Golden Age. It was a long way from St Saviour, Jersey to Beverly Hills. This is the story of how Elinor reinvented herself on the West Coast and ended up as a friend of Charlie Chaplin and working with Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino and Clara Bow.

This is an extract from my second book, Jersey: Secrets of the Sea.

Elinor Glyn's story will conclude in the next episode. 

 

 

Artwork courtesy of Wikimedia Commons (Library of Congress/ Public Domain). Music Chariots by Gavin Luke courtesy of Epidemic Sound.