Editing Stephen Tennant (section)

==Personal life==
During the 1920s and 1930s Tennant had a long time sexual affair with the poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Thompson |first1=Johnathan |title=New diaries reveal the 'dark secrets' of Siegfried Sassoon's swooning affair |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/new-diaries-reveal-the-dark-secrets-of-siegfried-sassoon-s-swooning-affair-321646.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/new-diaries-reveal-the-dark-secrets-of-siegfried-sassoon-s-swooning-affair-321646.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |website=The Independent |date=22 October 2005 |access-date=30 December 2020}}</ref> Prior to this he had proposed to a friend, Elizabeth Lowndes, but had been rejected ([[Philip Hoare]] relates how Tennant discussed plans with Lowndes about bringing his [[nanny]] with them on their honeymoon). 

His relationship with Sassoon (twenty years his senior), however, was to be his most important: it lasted some six years before Tennant off-handedly put an abrupt end to it and Sassoon was reportedly devastated.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Green |first=Peter |date=2006-02-20 |title=The Siegfried Line |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/65301/the-siegfried-line |access-date=2023-11-04 |issn=0028-6583}}</ref> 

When Tennant died in 1987, he had outlived most of his contemporaries. A large archive of his letters, scrapbooks, personal ephemera and artworks is held in [[The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History]] in [[Hackney, London]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = the viktor wynd museum of curiosities|url = http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum-curiosities/viktor-wynd-museum/viktor-wynd-museum-curiosities-fine-art-natural-history-now-open/#.VhEZ24sk--I|website = Thelasttuesdaysociety.org|accessdate = 2015-10-04|archive-date = 6 May 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210506123951/http://www.thelasttuesdaysociety.org/museum-curiosities/viktor-wynd-museum/viktor-wynd-museum-curiosities-fine-art-natural-history-now-open/#.VhEZ24sk--I|url-status = dead}}</ref>