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Emma Gifford met the writer Thomas Hardy in 1870 when he was working as an architect. Hardy had been commissioned to prepare a report on the condition of St Julitta's, the parish church of St Juliot, near Boscastle in Cornwall. Their courtship inspired A Pair of Blue Eyes, Hardy's third novel. [1]
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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.
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 · An Irish Diary. An old flame that burned bright – An Irishman’s Diary on Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford. Expand. Emma Gifford: first met Thomas Hardy 150 years ago on March 7th. Tim...
Emma Gifford Hardy. 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 ...
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’.
"Where the Picnic Was" (1913) is one of a number of elegies Thomas Hardy wrote for his wife, Emma Gifford, after her death in 1912. It does not mention her by name, however, and it gestures toward her death only at the end. The poem's speaker revisits a seaside spot where he, a woman, and two other friends had a picnic the previous summer.
