Emma Tennant collection, 1973-1998.

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Emma Tennant collection, 1973-1998.

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The collection contains items related to Tennant's relationship with Ted Hughes in the 1970s. The materials include a few pieces of correspondence from Hughes to Tennant during the 1970s and a brief note in 1998. The letters are short and mostly describe writing projects and travels. There are also three drafts of "The Notting Hill Diaries," published as BURNT DIARIES in 1999, an autobiographical account of Tennant's affair with Hughes. The drafts are mostly typescript copies with handwritten notes and insertions.

.5 linear ft. : (1 box)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233074

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998

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Assia Wevill was born Assia Gutman on May 15, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. Her mother, Lisa, was a German Protestant, and her father, Lonya, was a Russian Jew. In the late 1930s, the family fled to Tel Aviv to escape the Nazis. Wevill first married John Steel in London in 1946, and from there emigrated to Canada, sending visas to her family in Israel. In Vancouver, she met her second husband, Richard Lipsey, whom she divorced in 1960 to marry her third husband, David Wevill. The Wevills met Ted Hug...

Tennant, Emma.

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Emma Christina Tennant, a novelist, critic, and editor, was born October 20, 1937 in London, England, to Christopher Grey and Elizabeth Powell Tennant. She attended St. Paul's Girls' School in London. Tennant married three times and has three children: Matthew, Daisy, and Rose. She published her first novel, THE COLOR OF RAIN 1963 under the pseudonym Catherine Aydy. She also was the features editor for VOGUE in 1966 and edited BANANAS, an anthology of English poetry in 1977. From the...