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     • Stephen James Napier Tennant (21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987) was a British socialite known for his decadent, eccentric lifestyle. He was a central member of the socialite group referred to as "Bright Young Things" by the tabloid press of the time. Tennant was noted for his affected demeanor, appearance and behaviours.
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   What is Stephen Tennant?

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   What did Stephen Tennant write?

   • Stephen Tennant’s letters, thought Stephen Spender, were “the essence of English retention—objects for private consumption, deluxe samizdats.” Tennant also wrote poems, painted pictures, and worked on a novel, never to be completed.

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   What happened to Stephen Tennant?

   • Stephen Tennant died intestate in 1987, aged 80, and has become a cult figure. He appears in numerous biographies about the 1920s and 1930s and he was the model for Cedric Hampton in "Love in a Cold Climate" by Nancy Mitford. In his early youth he entertained his friends at his mother, Lady Glenconner's manor house Wilsford Manor in Wiltshire.

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   Who was Edward Tennant?

   • Tennant was born into British nobility, the youngest son of a Scottish peer, Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, and the former Pamela Wyndham, one of the Wyndham sisters and of The Souls clique. His mother was also a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), Oscar Wilde 's lover and a sonneteer.

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   Did Mr Hoare have a love affair with Stephen Tennant?

   • During the four years it took to research and write "Serious Pleasures," the life story of the reclusive Stephen Tennant, Mr. Hoare not only "had a love affair with Stephen at one remove," he also, like Tennant before him, took to his bed.

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   Did Tennant have a phobia of being seen?

   • The same phobia of being seen thwarted Tennant’s literary ambitions. As a young man, he wrote at least one novel, which he chose not to publish. And he spent many decades on his projected magnum opus, a Marseilles-inspired novel to be titled “Lascar,” conceived in 1938 and never to be completed.

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   Stephen James Napier Tennant (21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987) was a British socialite known for his decadent, eccentric lifestyle. [1] [2] He was a central member of the socialite group referred to as "Bright Young Things" by the tabloid press of the time. Tennant was noted for his affected demeanor, appearance and behaviours. [3]

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   May 12, 2020 · The Great Writer Who Never Wrote. Stephen Tennant’s letters, thought Stephen Spender, were “the essence of English retention—objects for private consumption, deluxe samizdats.”. Tennant also wrote poems, painted pictures, and worked on a novel, never to be completed.

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   Feb 3, 1991 · In 1910, when Stephen Tennant was 4 years old, he ran through the gardens of his family's Wiltshire estate, Wilsford Manor, and was literally stopped in his tracks when he came face to face...

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   Stephen Tennant was a fascinating and unique personality living an enchanted life with connections to many icons of the age. One of those rare books that you want never to end and worth it's weight in gold.

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    The early years of Stephen Tennant, a British artist, poet and socialite.