Under financial pressure, EG
agreed with R. D. Blumenfeld
, editor of the Daily Express, to write a novel (The Reason Why) within three weeks, for payment of ¥1,000. On this day...
Publishing
Elinor Glyn
The deal was struck after EG
asked Blumenfeld
if he could help her earn ¥1,000, which she desperately needed to cover her husband's latest debts.She finished the novel in eighteen days, having instructed her housemaid...
