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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
Feeling
Drudgery
Wish
Manuscripts
Feelings
Feared
Writing
Publishers
Work
Published
Much
Escape
Hated
Normal
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