Emma Tennant
Emma Tennant
The Hon. Emma Christina Tennant FRSLis a British novelist and editor. She is known for a postmodern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She has also published work under the name Catherine Aydy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 October 1937
exotic gardening growing grown interested paint wild
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.