In 1884 EG
's sister, Lucy (later Lady Duff Gordon)
(having left home at sixteen), married, at about twenty-two, a forty-year-old bachelor named James Wallace
.
Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Lucy Christiana Duff Gordon
The marriage quickly ended in divorce.
Family and Intimate relationships
Elinor Glyn
James Wallace
, husband of EG
's sister Lucy
, gambled and drank their money away. Lucy finally divorced him in 1889; her mother paid for the divorce with the little money that David Kennedy...
