Born in 1937, Scottish originated novelist Emma Tennant mixed post-modernism, fantasy and magic realism. Her work is feminist, magical and wicked, and uses the fantastic and the Gothic to interpret and explore everyday women's roles. Her family was of upper middle class Scottish extraction and owns “Glen”, a fake Gothic baronial mansion in Pembrokeshire, as well as estates in Trinidad gained during the nineteenth century. She remembered her father Charles Tennant as alternating between “frightful rages and paternalistic benevolence” and, perhaps as a result of this, excessive family relationships and social, emotional and formal contradictions appear throughout her work.
Her first novel, The Colour of Rain, is a comedy of manners written largely in dialogue. It was published
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Citation: Wisker, Gina. "Emma Tennant". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4345, accessed 22 November 2024.]
