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About Gertrude Tennant
- Mrs Gertrude Barbara Rich Tennant (9 October 1819, in Galway – 27 April 1918) was a society hostess in London, the friend and patron of artists and writers. She was the daughter of Captain Henry Theodosius Browne Collier (1791–1872), son of Admiral Sir George Collier (1738–1795).
- She was educated in France, where she moved in literary circles.
- In 1842 she met and was attracted to Gustave Flaubert.In 1846 Gertrude returned to Britain, and married Charles Tennant (1796-1873), a wealthy landowner and politician.
- They had six children - four surviving to adulthood: Alice (1848–1930), who remained unmarried; Charles Coombe Tennant (1852-1928); Dorothy (1855–1926), who married the explorer Henry Morton Stanley; and Eveleen (1856–1937), who married the spiritualist and classical scholar Frederic William Henry Myers (1843–1901). After her husband died in 1873, Gertrude became a society hostess, recreating the literary salons she had known in Paris at her home in London at 2 Richmond Terrace, Whitehall.
- In 1878 she met Flaubert again, and she later helped to edit his correspondence.
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