Dorothy Tennant

Tennant was born in Russell Square, London, the second daughter of Charles Tennant and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier (1819–1918). Her sister was the photographer, Eveleen Tennant Myers.[2] She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.[3][4] She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London.[5] Outside of London Tennant featured in exhibitions by the Fine Art Society in Glasgow and also in the Autumn Exhibitions held in Liverpool and Manchester.[5]

In 1890, she married the explorer of Africa, Henry Morton Stanley,[1] and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography,[1] reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life. Stanley had an unusual life and had been involved with young boys too.[6]

After Stanley's death, she married, in 1907, Henry Jones Curtis (died 19 February 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and writer.[7]

She was also an author and illustrated several books,[8] including London Street Arabs in 1890.[9]

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  Lord Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) (1880)
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  L'Amour Blessé (1895)
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  Illustration by Dorothy Stanley on the title page of A. J. Mounteney-Jephson's Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator (1890)

• London Street Arabs (London: Cassell & Co., 1890); Google books, archive.org

• Waller, David (2004). "Dorothy Stanley, Lady Stanley (1855–1926)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41313. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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• 8 paintings by or after Dorothy Tennant at the Art UK site
• Works by or about Dorothy Tennant at Internet Archive
• Works by Dorothy Tennant at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)