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Death Grave of Emma Gifford at St Michael's, Stinsford, Dorset. Emma Hardy died at Max Gate, the house she shared with Hardy near Dorchester on 27 November 1912 at the age of 72. On 26 November, she had felt unwell and allowed a doctor to visit but not to examine her. At 8 am on 27 November, her maid found her "moaning and terribly ill".
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2 de mar. de 2020 · Emma died unexpectedly on November 27th, 1912. Her maid went to the attic room but was unable to wake her. Hardy was sent for. “Em, Em,” he whispered as he knelt at her bedside. “It’s me ...
The awakening came when the latter died in 1860. She had set up a trust, from which her favourite son and his wife were to receive all the interest. Unfortunately, she had so depleted the capital that there was hardly any left, her estate being sworn at under £1000.
12 de abr. de 2022 · And now, quite unexpectedly, one November morning, Emma dies. Stunned by her loss, Tom is forced to confront their many years of estrangement.
In 1860 Emma's wealthy grandmother, Helen Gifford, died. The family then moved to the grandmother's property in Bodmin , Cornwall . On 7th March 1870, she met Thomas Hardy , who had been sent to St. Juliot near Boscastle , by his employer, in order "to take a plan and particulars of a church I am about to rebuild there".
When Emma died of a bad heart and impacted gallstones (she wrote treacly poems, many published, and suffered from delusions of grandeur), Hardy at sixty-two composed a loose sequence of verse, “Poems of 1912-1913.”
Emma’s sudden death in 1912 was a terrible shock to Hardy. He discovered a diary she had kept hidden in the attic, bitterly denigrating him as a husband. Mortified by the depth of her pain and despair, he started to look back on their thirty-eight years of marriage with the realisation that the responsibility for their estrangement stopped at ...
