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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.
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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...
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.
Emma Lavinia Gifford, the youngest but one of a family of five, was born there on 24 November 1840; she was therefore a few months younger than Hardy himself. She herself described her childhood home as ‘a most intellectual one and not only so but one of exquisite home-training and refinement’.
Thomas Hardy was a 29 year old architect who came to survey the building and prepare the design for St Juliot Church and the rectory. It was then he met Emma on 7th March 1870. Emma Gifford was living at the rectory with her sister, the Revd Cadell Holder’s second wife.
But Emma is an ardent Christian and a Suffragette, who always says what she is thinking, so her diary is entitled ‘What I Really Think of My Husband’. And when the beautiful Florence Dugdale enters their household - Hardy’s amanuensis - Emma tells her: ‘Doctor Crippen and my husband have poisoners’ moustaches, so, Florence, you had best watch out for yourself!’
