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Grave of Emma Gifford at St Michael's, Stinsford, Dorset. Emma Hardy died at Max Gate, the house she shared with Hardy near Dorchester on 27 November 1912 at the age of 72. [1] On 26 November, she had felt unwell and allowed a doctor to visit but not to examine her. At 8 am on 27 November, her maid found her "moaning and terribly ill".
From Robert Gittings, Young Thomas Hardy. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. 126-127. “Emma Livinia Gifford, named after her mother and an aunt who died in infancy, was the youngest daughter of John Attersoll Gifford and Emma Farman. though her father’s family had originally come from Staines in Middlesex, he and his bride were both Bristolians ...
Thomas Hardy was a 29 year old architect who came to survey the building and prepare the design for St Juliot Church and the rectory. It was then he met Emma on 7th March 1870. Emma Gifford was living at the rectory with her sister, the Revd Cadell Holder’s second wife. The first visit lasted four days during which Hardy visited Tintagel ...
Mar 2, 2020 · Emma Gifford: first met Thomas Hardy 150 years ago on March 7th . Tim Atkinson. Mon Mar 2 2020 - 00:01. It’s 150 years since arguably one the most significant events in English literature. It ...
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Emma's Graveyard Moan: Thomas Hardy's Elegies for his Dead Wife. ( 3QuarksDaily November 2, 2020) In 1874, Thomas Hardy married Emma Gifford, a woman who never let her novelist husband forget that she was born of a higher class than he, ever his superior in taste and breeding. After her death he got back at her—poetically—in a big way.
Emma Lavinia Hardy (born Gifford), 1874 - 1912 Emma Lavinia Hardy (born Gifford) 1874 1912 Emma Lavinia Hardy (born Gifford) was born in 1874. Emma married Thomas Hardy on month day 1874, at age less than one in marriage place .
