Biography
Emma Christina Tennant FRSL (20 October 1937 – 21 January 2017) was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. She also published under the pseudonym Catherine Aydy. Strangers: A Family Romance, London: Jonathan Cape, 1998
Girlitude, London: Jonathan Cape, 1999
Burnt Diaries, Edinburgh: Canongate, 1999
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GenderFemale
Birthday1937-10-20
Deathday2017-01-20 (79 years old)
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SpouseTim Owen
ChildrenRose Hippolyta Dempsey, Daisy Alice Cockburn, Matthew Yorke
FatherChristopher Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner
MotherElizabeth Powell
SiblingsTobias Tennant, Catherine Tennant
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesThe Glen, United Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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