In the 1920s Elinor Glyn's expert use of the mass media helped her parlay her fame as a romance novelist into an extremely successful career in Hollywood. Eventually she became a hybrid of romance novelist, Hollywood celebrity, and elder spokeswoman for female sexuality; a sort of combination of Barbara Cartland, Sherry Lansing, and Helen Gurley Brown. This paper discusses the intertextual nature of Glyn's fame (or infamy) and explores the possibilities the Web provides for modern sex goddesses. 

This paper explores the transition from one sort of recorded conversation -- the table-talk -- to the emergence of a new sort -- the interview -- and argues for the latter's importance in late twentieth century arts and the humanities.