Sylvia_Scarlett_(novel)

<i>Sylvia Scarlett</i> (novel)

Sylvia Scarlett (novel)

1918 novel

The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, often shortened to Sylvia Scarlett, is a 1918 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. The heroine of the story had previously appeared in Mackenzie's Sinister Street.[1] It was followed by a sequel Sylvia and Michael in 1919.

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Adaptation

In 1935 it was made into an American film Sylvia Scarlett directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edmund Gwenn and Brian Aherne.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Orel p.94
  2. [2]
    Goble p.300

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Orel, Harold. Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918. University Press of Kentucky, 1992.


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