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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
