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Hilary A. Hallett

Hilary A. Hallett
Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American studies and associate professor of history at Columbia University. The author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, she has written for the Los Angeles Times. Her book Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood is available now.


Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I
July 26, 2022  By Hilary A. Hallett
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Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

Hilary A. Hallett on Reclaiming “Trashy” Romances
May 16, 2022  By Hilary A. Hallett
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