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In the News (Tue 7 Oct 08)

  
  Tennant Floor
Tennant became interested in music at an early age; he played guitar and cello and began his professional music career in 1970, at the age of 16, in a band called ''Dust''.
Tennant is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1804.
The Honourable Stephen Tennant was born in England, the youngest son of a Scots peer, Lord Glenconner, and the former Pamela Wyndham, one of The Souls.
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 English boys' clothes during the 1900s
Stephen was the model for the main character in Nancy Mitford novel, Love in a Cold Climate.
Stephen biographer reports that as a boy he had long blond hair and was dressed by Pamela in fussy dresses until he was 8 years old.
Stephen as an adult was great friends with Rex Whistler (painter) who he met while studing drawing at an art institute in London and Cecil Beaton, who became the premier English upperclass photographer.
histclo.com /country/eng/co-eng-19001.html   (1433 words)

  
 zingmagazine | zingmagazine6 | amra brooks 03
Stephen said that' s what you should aspire to, the story of your life should be the pursuit of serious pleasure.
There' s a period of Stephen' s life from age twenty-four to twenty-eight, that I thought was really fascinating, where he, for vague reasons, I mean instability and lost love--it' s only conjecture really--he essentially took to his bed for four years, which I always sort of admire (laughs).
This photo is just so beautiful and it' s just Stephen in bed, and it' s difficult to describe, but it' s just very haunting, and I think he' s about, well he' s in his mid-twenties when it was taken.
www.zingmagazine.com /zing6/brooks/brooks03.html   (958 words)

  
 Siegfried Sassoon
In the end, the narcissistic and consumptive Tennant seems to have decided that having "Sieg" on the premises, where he antagonised the nursing staff and barred the door to callers, was making him worse.
Tennant repeat­edly told him to modernize his verse, but Sassoon could never do so, nor understand why he was not appointed to the Order of Merit alongside Eliot.
The relationship with Tennant, which appears to have produced in Sassoon a revulsion against his homosexuality, appears to be the most obvious example of this.
www.arlindo-correia.com /sassoon.html   (8926 words)

  
 From bohemia to a life of nobility - www.smh.com.au
Tennant arrived in a fluster of noise accompanied by a rather showy woman.
Tennant was likewise drawn to Virginia's shy beauty, her heart-shaped face, half covered by her long hair.
Though Tennant took her on a cruise to Madeira, and drove her to Positano, they were always separately quartered.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/30/1067233318197.html?from=storyrhs   (1150 words)

  
 Philip Hoare
But the idea that Stephen was living in the neighbouring county to me, and that he was still alive when I started to write about him, suddenly brought to life the contrast in myself between my deeply suburban background and that fantasy world I had aspired to.
Stephen really had been a Bright Young Thing; and he had looked like David Bowie in 1927 - wearing gold dust in his hair and that extraordinary leather coat with the chinchilla fur collar - an alien in Mayfair.
It was as though, in his descriptions of high aesthetic languour and luxury, Hoare had been establishing one half of a moral equation, the concluding formulae of which, in 'Wilde's Last Stand', described social neurasthenia, cultural claustrophobia and the road to total war.
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 Amazon.ca: Blaydar's Children: Books: Stephen Tennant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However Stephen retains a voice of his own; his ebb and flow of the battle scenes are well written and his grasp of the mundane is where Stephen really shines, making Blaydar's Children a treat to read.
Luckily, Tennant is such a good writer the book doesn't come across as a pastiche, but the work of a new author still developing his own voice.
Stephen Tennant is major new talent, whose work should appeal across the board, not just to genre fans, but to all lovers of exciting adventure fiction.
www.amazon.ca /Blaydars-Children-Stephen-Tennant/dp/1931095159   (953 words)

  
 Tennant Background | Checkrecord.com...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tennant Risk Services provides wholesale market alternatives to agents and brokers in the...
Jim Tennant, the Principal of The Tennant Group, has an extensive background in the...
The Tennant Creek Logo is a reproduction of a painting 'Jinamoom - Flood Water' by Peggy Griffiths...
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 In July 1927, Cecil Beaton photographed the Honourable Stephen Tennant on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday
Like Dorian's portrait, Stephen's photograph haunted him, as it did me. It still speaks over the decades, invisibly describing a leyline of dandyism and soldiery: an esoteric, non-genealogical lineage of influence and attraction, a paradoxical tension between the aesthetic and the martial, the fey and the drilled, the frankly decadent and the patriotically utilitarian.
Even as Tennant was fixing his clear blue eyes on Beaton's lens, the young actor and playwright, Noel Coward, was exhibiting a certain military fetish.
Luchino Visconti, born in 1906, the same year as Stephen Tennant, was fascinated by the politics of uniform and power from an early age.
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 Siegfried Sassoon: A Life, by Max Egremont - Military Ink   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Then Sassoon fell in love with the artistocratic aesthete Stephen Tennant, who led him into his group of Bright Young Things who inspired the early novels of Evelyn Waugh.
At the demise of his passionate and fraught relationship with Tennant, Sassoon suddenly married the beautiful Hester Gatty in 1933 and retreated to a quiet country life until their eventual estrangement and Sassoon's subsequent conversion to Catholicism.
From his famous war poems to the gentler vision of his prose, Sassoon wrote masterfully of war and lost idylls, and this work and its complex author are brilliantly illuminated in Max Egremont's definitive biography.
www.militaryink.com /books/2005/november/0374263752.htm   (332 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant: Books: Philip Hoare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A cold side of Tennant, however, is revealed in his cruel break with his lover, poet Siegfried Sassoon, who never recovered from the rejection.
Of equal interest are the author's discussions of Tennant's social milieu and the many artists and writers he knew.
Tennant seems to have had a modicum of literary and artistic talent (he studied at the Slade), but could never bring it to fruition.
www.amazon.com /Serious-Pleasures-Life-Stephen-Tennant/dp/0241124166   (1251 words)

  
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Novelist Emma Tennant has written about her family in this book described as a "literary memoir." Her grandfather Edward, the first Baron Glenconner, had an inherited family fortune derived from industry.
One of Edward and Pamela's sons was Stephen Tennant, a somewhat famous eccentric homosexual "aesthete."
Tennant writes like a novelist, providing good physical description, conversation, and thoughts of the various individuals.
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 boy's experiences with dresses and curls
It was a heady legacy for Stephen to inherit, but one which was all too soon to be violently curtailed by the events of 1914-18.
Stephen grew long-limbed and tall, despite the apparent sickliness that had been present from birth.
Stephen was a pageboy at her wedding to the son of Lord Glenconner's best friend, General Arthur Wolfe Murray, to whom he left a bequest in his will.
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 Max Egremont | Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet's Life | WGBH Forum Network | Free Online Lectures
He joined the Labour Party, became literary editor of the socialist Daily Herald, and began close friendships with Thomas Hardy and E.M. Forster while trying to grow as a poet in peacetime.
Then Sassoon fell in love with the aristocratic aesthete Stephen Tennant, who led him into the group of 'bright young things' who inspired the early novels of Evelyn Waugh.
From his famous war poems to the gentler vision of his prose, Sassoon wrote masterfully of war and lost idylls, and this work and its complex author are brilliantly illuminated in Max Egremont's definitive biography, which draws from unprecedented access to Sassoon's complete papers.
forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=3120   (279 words)

  
 Stephen Tennant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After sampling a variety of careers--including construction, gunsmithing and serving in the RAF--Stephen Tennant now works as a professional geologist.
His novel Blaydar's Children, which features Breca the Champion, will be released by Silver Lake Publishing in early 2001.
You can visit Stephen's homepage for more background on his writing.
www.fables.org /bios/tennant.html   (50 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Stephen Tennant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bio: Born in Marston Green, Warwickshire, Stephen Tennant has enjoyed (or, at least, experienced) working in diverse venues as construction, the Royal Air Force, and Smith & Wesson's Birmingham Small Arms factory.
As events unfold, Vengalen and Brand find they must put aside their differences and join forces to save a young girl with a very special...
Stephen Tennant, author of Blaydar's Children and Dark Winter Riders, has once again returned to his vast and detailed fantasy world.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/StephenTennanteBooks.htm   (302 words)

  
 Photo of Lt. The Hon. Edward Wyndham Tennant
On your site I discovered the wonderful sketch of Edward Wyndham Tennant by JSS and vowed to locate a copy of the memoir his mother Pamela, Lady Glenconner wrote after his tragic death in WWI.
The book is very sweet and you can almost feel Lady Glenconner's pain as she recalls Bim's childhood and his final days on the battlefield.
Currently, I am reading a book about Bim's brother Stephen Tennant called "Serious Pleasures" supposedly Stephen was the beauty of the family but I disagree...he was very effeminate and terribly spoiled whereas Bim was elegant but also masculine and very much beloved by all who knew him during his short life.
www.jssgallery.org /Resources/Photos/People/Edward_Tennant.html   (274 words)

  
 The battle for the memory of Iris Murdoch Independent on Sunday, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In Murdoch's case, however, I can't help but recall my own potent memory - common to many who attended literary launches in the Eighties and Nineties - of Bayley with the senile novelist in tow; a shuffling, ghostly figure whose presence at parties always seemed, to me at least, to be an uncomfortable one.
Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry's directorial debut, which opens in October, is based on Evelyn Waugh's satire of 1930, Vile Bodies.
The more fastidious might balk at hearing the Master's "Nina", not composed until 1944, and historians of hedonism take issue with the sight of everyone from Harriet Walter to Sir John Mills snorting cocaine through gold tubes and cigarette holders - the Twenties method was to use a tiny silver spoon, darling.
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 glbtq >> arts >> Asquith, Anthony
His parents were Herbert Asquith (later Earl of Oxford and Asquith), who was British Prime Minister from 1909 to 1916, and the witty Margot Tennant Asquith, a highly visible figure in London literary and social circles.
The gay eccentric Stephen Tennant was a cousin, and contemporary actress Helena Bonham Carter is his great-niece.
Although his films are almost exclusively concerned with heterosexual subjects, some critics, particularly Stephen Bourne, argue that they are permeated with a gay sensibility.
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 Lamson Library » Blog Archive » Serious Pleasures : The Life Of Stephen Tennant
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The Adventures Of Robina By Herself : Being The Memoirs Of A Débutante At The Court Of Queen Elizabeth II
This entry was posted on Friday, July 9th, 1993 at 12:00 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
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 The Memoirs of George Sherston. : SASSOON, (Siegfried).
The sisters Beryl and Eileen Hunter were gardeners on Stephen Tennant's Wilsford estate, but were clearly well-bred gels, who in their letters used the language of the dorm rather than the potting shed - things were "rotten", "top-hole" "topping" or "beastly".
They played an important role as go-betweens during the dying years of the love affair between the impossibly louche Tennant and Sassoon.
For Sassoon the affair was the painful sum of all his life's paradoxes, and the help of this horsey, intelligent, well read, well intentioned and non judgmental pair went a long way to easing the pain of those difficult years.
www.maggs.com /title/CL106038.asp   (211 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
the irrepressible androgyne and socialite, Stephen Tennant, had once asked Nancy Mitford on a postcard.
But Tennant?s question is still at the heart of serious modern novels about male homosexual life in the West.
Or is there not something crass about reducing complex and plural ways of being to the pros and cons of promiscuity?
www.telegraphindia.com /1041119/asp/opinion/story_4019604.asp   (1006 words)

  
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The skyrocketing price of homes is likely to spawn an increase in litigation naming real estate brokers and inspectors who were involved in the transaction.
In this article Steve Tennant writes about a Pro-Bono initiative to encourage the use of mediation in smaller scale construction disputes.
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 (Seth Tennant - Virgil Sherman Tennant )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Seth Tennant (19 Oct 1820 - 2 Oct 1911)
Stephen Tennant (24 Nov 1848 - 27 Dec 1936)
Uriah Nimrod Tennant (15 Feb 1896 - AFT.
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 The Boxing Channel
The memo promises that $5,000,000 will be wired to the MCI Center by May 20, including $1.5 million from Tennant and $3.5 million from Stuckey.
People say ‘Why didn’t you verify the money?’ Once Shelly Finkel and Stephen Espinoza, who is Tyson’s lawyer, who are real guys in boxing, once they verified the money, there was no need for me to verify the money.
The problem came when Stephen Espinoza said take the money and put it in the Stephen Espinoza account so we can feel more secure.
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 Edward Wyndham Tennant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other persons named Edward Tennant, see Edward Tennant (disambiguation).
Edward Wyndham Tennant (July 1, 1897 – September 22, 1916), was an English war poet, killed at the Battle of the Somme.
This page was last modified 10:06, 1 November 2006.
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 foxysquid: A Loving Tribute.
That's Siggy in the middle, with his doctor on the left and Stephen Tennant on the right.
I bet you couldn't haven take a photo of Stephen Tennant in which he didn't look gay!
He is so amazingly gay, I am actually quite impressed by his accomplishments in the field of gayness.
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 Serious Pleasures : The Life of Stephen Tennant - HOARE, PHILIP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Serious Pleasures : The Life of Stephen Tennant - HOARE, PHILIP
HOARE, PHILIP Serious Pleasures : The Life of Stephen Tennant
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 Friendster - Gavin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"Serious Pleasures-the life of Stephen Tennant", any Ballard(of course), In the night all Cats are Grey, Ferret Fanciers Almanac (1952 edition, with the stained flyleaf)
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