Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic.
10 Facts About Emma Tennant
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Emma Tennant remembered her father as a mix of rage and benevolence.
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Emma Tennant was the niece of Edward and Stephen Tennant, and the half-sister of Colin Tennant, later the third Baron Glenconner, from her father's first marriage.
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Emma Tennant was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, but left when she was 15.
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Emma Tennant spent some time at an Oxford finishing school, studying languages and the history of art, and a year in Paris at The Louvre.
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Emma Tennant spent much time there throughout her life and later in 2001, published a book about the building of the house, entitled A House in Corfu.
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Emma Tennant worked as a travel writer for Queen magazine and an editor for Vogue.
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Emma Tennant was the editor of the Viking series Lives of Modern Women.
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Emma Tennant was married four times, including to the journalist and author Christopher Booker between 1963 and 1968 and the political writer Alexander Cockburn between 13 December 1968 and 1973.
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Emma Tennant died on 21 January 2017 in a London hospital from posterior cortical atrophy, a form of Alzheimer's disease.