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The Hon. 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''. She has also published work under the name Catherine Aydy.〔Peter Lewis, updated by Judson Knight, ("Emma (Christina) Tennant Biography" ), JRank.〕 ==Biography== Tennant is of Scottish extraction, the daughter of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner and Elizabeth Lady Glenconner (née Powell). She is the niece of Edward Wyndham Tennant and Stephen Tennant, and the half-sister of Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron 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 The Glen in Peeblesshire. Her family also owned estates in Trinidad. Tennant 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'', publishing her first novel, ''The Colour of Rain'', under a pseudonym when she was twenty-six. Between 1975 and 1979, she edited a literary magazine, ''Bananas'', which helped launch the careers of several young novelists. A large number of books by Tennant have followed: thrillers, children’s books, fantasies, and several revisionist takes on classic novels, including a sequel to ''Pride and Prejudice'' called ''Pemberley''. In later years, she began to treat her own life in such books as ''Girlitude'' and ''Burnt Diaries'' (both published in 1999), the second of which details her affair with Ted Hughes. ''The French Dancer's Bastard'', which recounts the life of Adele, the daughter of Mr Rochester from ''Jane Eyre'', was published in October 2006. ''The Autobiography of the Queen'', written with Hilary Bailey, was published in October 2007. Tennant has been 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. She has two daughters and a son, author Matthew Yorke. In April 2008, she married her partner of 33 years, Tim Owens, saying it was for tax reasons.〔Emma Tennant ("Tying the knot after 33 years" ), ''The Observer'', 20 April 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma Tennant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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