Emma Tennant (1) (1937–2017)
Autor de Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued
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Emma Tennant was born in London, England on October 20, 1937. Before becoming an author and editor, she worked as a journalist for Queen magazine and Vogue. Her first novel, The Color of Rain, was written under the pseudonym of Catherine Aydy in 1963. The novels written under her own name included mostrar más The Time of the Crack, The Last of the Country House Murders, Hotel de Dream, The Bad Sister, Alice Fell, Queen of Stones, Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde, Faustine, Pemberley, and An Unequal Marriage. She also wrote several memoirs including Strangers: A Family Romance, Girlitude: A Memoir of the 50s and 60s, Burnt Diaries, and Waiting for Princess Margaret. She founded and edited the literary journal Bananas and was the editor the Viking series Lives of Modern Women. She died from posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer's disease, on January 21, 2017 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Tennant, Emily Christina (birth)
- Otros nombres
- Aydy, Catherine (pseudonym for "The Colour of Rain")
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1937-10-20
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2017-01-20
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- posterior cortical atrophy
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- St Paul's Girls' School, London, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
editor
journalist
memoirist
travel writer - Relaciones
- Yorke, Matthew (child)
Tennant, Stephen (uncle)
Glenconner, Pamela (grandmother)
Asquith, Margot (great-aunt)
Booker, Christopher (spouse | divorced)
Yorke, Sebastian (spouse | divorced) (mostrar todos 13)
Cockburn, Alexander (spouse | divorced)
Hughes, Ted (lover)
Caudwell, Sarah (sibling-in-law)
Cockburn, Claud (parent-in-law)
Cockburn, Patrick (sibling-in-law)
Cockburn, Andrew (sibling-in-law)
Owens, Tim (spouse) - Organizaciones
- Bananas (founder)
- Premios y honores
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
- Biografía breve
- Emma Tennant was born in London, England, to an aristocratic family of Scottish origins. Her parents were Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner, and Elizabeth, Lady Glenconner. She was a half-sister of Colin Tennant, later 3rd Baron Glenconner, and a niece of socialite Stephen Tennant. She split her childhood between the family's mock-baronial manor house The Glen near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders, and London. She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School in London and an Oxford finishing school, before coming out as a debutante in 1956. Tennant worked as a travel writer for Queen magazine and an editor for Vogue. She published her debut novel, The Colour of Rain, at age 25 under the pseudonym Catherine Aydy. After Italian novelist Alberto Moravia disparaged the book, she suffered from writer's block for nearly 10 years. Finally in 1973, she published her second novel The Time of the Crack, and a large number of books followed, which included fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, comedies, and children's books. In 1975, she founded Bananas, an irreverent literary magazine, which helped launch the careers of several young novelists, and served as its editor for three years. She also was the editor of the Viking series Lives of Modern Women.
In later years, she began to write about her own life, publishing four volumes of memoirs that included Girlitude and Burnt Diaries (both 1999). She also wrote sequels with a feminist twist to some classic British novels, including The French Dancer's Bastard (2006), which recounted the life of Adèle, the daughter of Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre; An Unequal Marriage: Or, Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later (1994); and Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde (1989). Tennant was married four times and had three children, including her son Matthew Yorke, also a writer.
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- Popularidad
- #13,999
- Valoración
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- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 200
- Idiomas
- 11
Tennant pays tribute to other Corfu writers like Homer, Durrell, and Edward Lear.
While I enjoyed Tennant's romantic descriptions, her parenthetic comments and run-on sentences were tiring.… (más)