Elinor Kennedy

EG 's mother, Elinor (Saunders) Sutherland, later Kennedy , was married at nineteen and widowed at twenty-three. For the first six years of Elinor's life she played no active role in her children's upbringing. She...

EG had begun writing to amuse herself and others, but by 1908 her husband had spent all their capital, causing them to go into debt and borrow from friends, family, and their own assets. This...

After the mother of Elinor Sutherland (later EG ) married David Kennedy , the new family moved from Canada back to Elinor's birthplace, Jersey in the Channel Islands.

In 1890, after the death of her oppressive stepfather, David Kennedy , Elinor Sutherland (later Glyn) moved with her mother from Jersey to London. With Elinor's sister, Lucy, they rented a house at 25 Davies...

She begins by defining what romance means to her, and she explains that in her life the fundamental impulse behind every action, has been the desire for romance. To her, romance is ideal love—spiritual...