Tennant, Stephen
Illustrator and author who associated with English artists and writers. Also known as The Honorable Stephen James Napier Tennant (1906-1987).
From the description of Papers, 1929-1977. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 35158547
Tennant was Siegfried Sassoon's lover and an intimate member of the "Bright Young Things" circle, which also included Cecil Beaton, the Mitfords, the Sitwells, Evelyn Waugh, etc. He was a model for Cedric Hampton in Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and for Sebastian Flyte in Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Philip Hoare wrote his biography (Serious Pleasures, Hamilton, 1990).
From the description of Collection of autograph letters : Wilsford Manor, Salisbury, to his nephew, Simon Blow, 1972-1985 and undated. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 717334747
Illustrator, author, poet, and companion of Siegfried Sassoon.
From the description of Papers, 1945-1953. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853353
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associatedWith | Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980. | person |
associatedWith | Bibesco, Marthe, 1886-1973. | person |
associatedWith | Blow, Simon. | person |
associatedWith | Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974. | person |
associatedWith | Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. | person |
associatedWith | Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989. | person |
associatedWith | Hutton, Barbara, 1912-1979. | person |
associatedWith | Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975. | person |
associatedWith | Huxley, Juliette, 1896-1994. | person |
associatedWith | Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938. | person |
associatedWith | Pitter, Ruth, 1897-1992. | person |
associatedWith | Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962. | person |
associatedWith | Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967. | person |
associatedWith | Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969. | person |
associatedWith | Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. | person |
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Active 1930
Active 1947