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Emma Gifford, the daughter of solicitor, John Attersoll Gifford and Emma Farman Gifford, was born in Plymouth, on 24th November 1840. Emma was the youngest of five children. She later recalled that her home was "a most intellectual one and not only so but one of exquisite home-training and refinement - alas the difference the loss of these amenities and generalities has made to me."
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In the middle of this strict social code, Hardy came into being. He met his first wife, Emma Gifford, in 1870 when he visited Cornwall. He was captivated by both her and the landscape that surrounded her. Some controversy surrounded her methods in securing his hand in marriage.
Emma Lavinia Gifford (24 November 1840 – 27 November 1912) was an English writer and suffragist, who was the first wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
Gifford was born in Oxford in 1973 at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Her parents were Charlotte (born Pumphrey) and Richard Peter (Rick) Stroud. Her father was a television director and producer and he was the second husband of her mother who had been Charlotte Bridgewater. [1] Nell had three half-siblings including the designer Emma Bridgewater. [2]
Once you know about Hardy’s life, it’s easy to see the things he was working through in his writing. Two women were deeply important to his life and work: his first wife Emma Gifford, and his second wife Florence Dugdale.
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. Apart from running the lace factory, James Gifford and Emma shared an interest in ...
