revisionist takes on classic novels, including a sequel to Pride and Prejudice called Pemberley. In later years, she began to treat her own life in such books as Girlitude and Burnt Diaries (both published in 1999), the second of which details her affair with Ted Hughes. "He was so odd – to put it mildly," she wrote. The French Dancer's Bastard, which recounts the life of Adèle, the daughter of Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre, was published in October 2006. The Autobiography of the Queen, written with Hilary Bailey, was published in October 2007. Personal life Tennant was married four times, including to the journalist and author Christopher Booker between 1963 and 1968 and the political writer Alexander Cockburn between 13 December 1968 and 1973. She had one son and two daughters. Her son, from her first marriage, is the author Matthew Yorke. Her older daughter Daisy, from her marriage to Cockburn, teaches the Alexander technique. Her younger daughter Rose Dempsey, from a relationship with the publisher Michael Dempsey, works for the Serpentine Galleries. A lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, she married in April 2008 her partner of 33 years, Tim Owens, saying it was not, or not only for tax policies introduced by the government of Gordon Brown. Emma Tennant died on 21 January 2017 in a London hospital from posterior cortical atrophy, a form of Alzheimer's disease. Selected bibliography Novels The Colour of Rain (as Catherine Aydy), London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964 The Time of the Crack, London: Cape, 1973; as The Crack, London: Penguin, 1978 The Last of the Country House Murders, London: Cape, 1974; New York, Nelson, 1976 Hotel de Dream, London: Gollancz, 1976 The Bad Sister, London: Gollancz; New York: Coward McCann, 1978 Wild Nights, London: Cape, 1979; New York: Harcourt Brace, 1980 Alice Fell, London: Cape, 1980 Queen of Stones, London: Cape, 1982 Woman Beware Woman, London: Cape, 1983; as The Half-Mother, Boston: Little Brown, 1985 Black Marina, London: Faber: 1985 The Adventures of Robina, by Herself, London: Faber, 1986; New York:, Persea, 1987. Series: The Cycle of the Sun The House of Hospitalities, London: Viking, 1987 A Wedding of Cousins, London: Viking, 1988 The Magic Drum, London: Viking, 1989 Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde, London: Faber, 1989 (after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) Sisters and Strangers, London: