Title The magnificent Mrs. Tennant : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / David Waller

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents How I found Gertrude Tennant -- Born into a long line of heroes -- Early adventures -- Arrival in Paris -- Unsentimental education -- Gertrude meets her future husband -- Gertrude enters society -- The marriage market -- Phantoms of Trouville -- At home with the Flauberts -- An improbable romance -- Portrait of a marriage -- Charles's Angel in the house? -- Births and deaths -- Rita and Emma: two literary heroines -- Les Misérables -- Moving up in the world -- Gertrude's dark night of the soul -- Re-entering the marriage market -- Reunited with an old flame -- En eligible match -- The delicious dolly -- A salon in Whitehall -- Bula Matari in the drawing-room -- Dolly's choices -- Quel bel avenir? -- 'Whom shall I meet in heaven?' Summary "Gertrude Tennant's life was remarkable for its length (1819-1918), but even more so for the influence she achieved as an unsurpassed London hostess. The salon she established when widowed in her early fifties attracted legions of celebrities, among them Gladstone and Disraeli, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Thomas Huxley, John Everett Millais, Henry James, and Robert Browning. In her youth she had a fling with Gustave Flaubert, and in her later years she became the redoubtable mother-in-law to the explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But as a woman in a male-dominated world, Mrs. Tennant has been remembered mainly as a footnote in the lives of eminent men. This book recovers the lost life of Gertrude Tennant, drawing on a treasuretrove of recently discovered family papers - thousands of letters, including two dozen original letters from Flaubert to Gertrude, dozens of diaries, and many other unpublished documents relating to Stanley and other famous figures of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. David Waller presents Gertrude Tennant's life in colourful detail, placing her not only at the heart of a multi-generational, matriarchal family epic but also at the centre of European social, literary, and intellectual life for the best part of a century."--Publisher description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2024. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918. Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- Diaries Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 fast Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918. lemac Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- brev. sao Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918 -- dagböcker. sao Tennant, Gertrude. swd Subject Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography Gentry -- Great Britain -- Biography Salons -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Salons -- France -- History -- 19th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Gentry Intellectual life Manners and customs Salons Socialites Festivals -- Gran Bretanya -- S. XIX. Salongskultur -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet. Berömda personer -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet -- biografi. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056952 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject France Great Britain Gran Bretanya -- Vida intel·lectual -- S. XIX. Storbritannien -- intellektuellt liv -- historia -- 1800-talet. Genre/Form Biographies Diaries History Personal correspondence diaries. Diaries. Journaux intimes. Form Electronic book Author Tennant, Gertrude, 1819-1918. LC no. 2008051692 ISBN 9780300159943 0300159943

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