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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 · The door of the St Juliot rectory was opened to him by the rector’s sister-in-law, Emma Gifford. The rector himself was in bed with gout and his wife was upstairs at his bedside.
12 de abr. de 2022 · The story of Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford begins in the West Country, in 1870. While working as an architect, the 29-year-old Hardy was commissioned that March to make plans for the restoration of St Juliot Church near Boscastle.
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.
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.
2 de abr. de 2020 · While Hardy’s early romance with his first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford, forms the background to a number of his novels and was the inspiration for over a hundred of his poems, including the elegiac ‘Poems of 1912-13’, his marriage to Florence Dugdale has received less attention.
Learn how the famous novelist Thomas Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Gifford, a beautiful and rebellious woman, in a remote Cornish village in 1870. Discover the places and poems that inspired their courtship and marriage, and the legacy of their tragic story.
