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Emma Tennant
British
Novelist
Born:
Oct 20
,
1937
Died:
Jan 21
,
2017
Always
Gardening
Life
Me
People
Time
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Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.
Emma Tennant
Me
Gardening
Speak
Plants
Wild
Everything
Like
Know
Because
Always
Am
Exotic
Friends
Just
Hedge
Interested
Interesting
Them
Really
Paint
Even
Growing
Grown
Flowers
Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.
Emma Tennant
Time
Women
Joke
Else
Ways
Possible
Find
All Women
Pretty
Someone
Had
Like
Make
Always
Either
Many
Awful
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
Emma Tennant
Family
Me
People
Thought
Would
About
Something
Write
Wrong
Suppose
Obvious
Fairly
Always
Were
Motives
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
Stop
Wanted
Asking
Reasons
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a trowel in one hand and a paintbrush in the other.
Emma Tennant
Time
Gardening
Remember
Painting
Other
Must
Born
Both
Been
Hand
Cannot
Not Interested
Interested
Paintbrush
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