- Dorothy Tennant
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Lady Dorothy Stanley Dorothy Tennant (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was a Victorian neoclassicist painter , born in Wales.[1] She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.[2][3] 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. After Stanley's death, she married Henry Jones Curtis (died Feb. 19, 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and writer, in 1907.[4]
She was also an authoress and illustrated several books.[5]
Bibliography
- London Street Arabs (1890) Cassell & Co., London [2]
References
- ^ a b c Henry Morton Stanley (1909) The Autobiography Of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley Ed., Houghton Mifflin Company
- ^ Grosvenor Prints, London [1]
- ^ w:fr:Jean-Jacques Henner
- ^ Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)
- ^ Google Books (2010)
L'Amour Blessé by Dorothy Tennant (1895)
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