Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (born 20 October 1937) is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Tennant is of Scottish extraction, the daughter of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, and Elizabe...
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Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (born 20 October 1937) is a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Tennant is of Scottish extraction, the daughter of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, and Elizabeth Lady Glenconner. Born in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and spent the World War II years and her childhood summers at the family’s faux Gothic mansion in Peeblesshire. Her family also owned estates in Trinidad. Tennant’s remembers her father as a mix of rage and benevolence, and these memories may have influenced her fiction.
Tennant grew up in the modish London of the 1950s and 1960s. She worked as a travel writer for Queen magazine and an editor for Vogue. In the 1970s she edited a literary magazine, Bananas, which...
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