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Emma Lavinia Gifford (24 November 1840 – 27 November 1912) was an English writer and suffragist. She was also the first wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
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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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Apr 12, 2022 · After Emma’s death, Hardy wrote an extraordinary series of love poems to her, the ‘Poems of 1912-13’, which remembered and celebrated this heightened time – but only once it was too late. The puzzle that gripped me was: why did Hardy choose Emma Gifford as his wife in the first place?
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....
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.
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.
"Where the Picnic Was" (1913) is one of a number of elegies Thomas Hardy wrote for his wife, Emma Gifford, after her death in 1912. It does not mention her by name, however, and it gestures toward her death only at the end. The poem's speaker revisits a seaside spot where he, a woman, and two other friends had a picnic the previous summer.
