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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.
2 de mar. de 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...
12 de abr. de 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?
Emma Lavinia Gifford (1840-1912) was the youngest daughter of a Bristol solicitor and a Devonshire school-master. She married Thomas Hardy in 1874, after a childhood of poverty and tragedy, and became his inspiration for many of his novels and poems.
11 de jul. de 2020 · On the first day that Hardy arrived at St Juliot church Emma Lavinia Gifford was there to meet him. She was working as a governess and was outgoing and well-educated. She was also strikingly beautiful with bright blue eyes and a mass of auburn hair. Emma had been born in Plymouth in 1840 but had come to live in Cornwall in 1860.
1 de abr. de 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.
Learn how Thomas Hardy met his first wife Emma Gifford in 1870 at St Juliot Church in Cornwall, where he was an architect. Explore the places they visited, the poems he wrote, and the memorial he designed for her.
