Emma Lavinia Gifford (24 November 1840 – 27 November 1912) was an English writer and suffragist, who was the first wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
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 wasn’t...
Apr 1, 2020 · Hardy’s first marriage – to Emma Gifford – has tended to garner more attention, partly because so much of his great work, including the elegiac “Poems of 1912-13”, was inspired by her.
Apr 2, 2020 · His second marriage came two years after the death of first wife, Emma Gifford Newspapers ridiculed the 38-year age difference between Hardy and Dugdale Despite this, Dugdale insisted that their...
Millionaire's daughter Emma Gifford, 21, leaves Horseferry Road Mags Court today (Weds), where she appeared on a charge of killing her new-born baby. Emma, pictured with her parents, was freed on unconditional bail until November 13. See PA Story COURTS Gifford. Photo by Stefan Rousseau. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)
Emma’s sudden death in 1912 was a terrible shock to Hardy. He discovered a diary she had kept hidden in the attic, bitterly denigrating him as a husband. Mortified by the depth of her pain and despair, he started to look back on their thirty-eight years of marriage with the realisation that the responsibility for their estrangement stopped at ...
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Emma Gifford, the daughter of solicitor, John Attersoll Gifford and Emma Farman Gifford, was born in Plymouth, on 24th November 1840. Emma was the youngest of five children.
Apr 29, 2023 · The Chosen. Author: Elizabeth Lowry. ISBN-13: 978-1529410709. Publisher: Riverrun. Guideline Price: £9.99. The marriage of Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford grew increasingly unhappy after several ...
Emma Lavinia Gifford, the youngest but one of a family of five, was born there on 24 November 1840; she was therefore a few months younger than Hardy himself. She herself described her childhood home as ‘a most intellectual one and not only so but one of exquisite home-training and refinement’.
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