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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 · 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?
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...
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 · By 1910 she was typing up a novella, “The Maid on the Shore”, by Hardy’s first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford. Emma had also written “The Inspirer”, about a woman who inspired her husband’s novels. Professor Richardson said: “It is rare to find such significant letters.
