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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 ago. de 2012 · The real person could never live up to that glorious lost romantic vision. Thus when Emma Gifford Hardy died, she came to life again in all her youthful charm and beauty and his old love welled up in him. He then wrote wonderful love poems about Emma from her death until the end of his days, even though he remarried later.
- Loretta Proctor
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.
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.
Emma Gifford (nee Rossiter ) came to Chard as the bride of lace factory owner, James Gifford. before they married in 1883, Emma, the daughter of a Taunton solicitor, had been educated at Dover and Bedford College, London and was a proficient mathematician.
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.
