In her teens and twenties she often travelled to the continent, gaining many young male admirers. As a young girl she would take up writing and keeping a diary. She would later be drawn to mysticism and romance.
The young and precocious Glyn was a voracious reader interested in French history and mythology, though she had no formal education due to her strong will and troubles with governesses. With Glyn's mother remarried in 1871 they returned to Jersey, England when she was eight. Lucy, or Lady Duff Gordon (1863-1935) would be one of the survivors of the Titanic sinking and become the famous couturier known as Lucile. Elinor's mother returned to Guelph, Ontario, Canada, with Elinor and her sister Lucy in tow. Glyn's father was Douglas Sutherland, a civil engineer of Scottish descent who died when Elinor was three months old. Her mother, also named Elinor, (née Saunders) (1840/41–1937) was from an Anglo-French family who had emigrated to Canada. Elinor Glyn (née Sutherland) was born on 17 October 1864 in Jersey, Channel Islands, England.
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