Search results
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.
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’.
Apr 12, 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?
Jul 11, 2020 · Cornish writer Elizabeth Dale looks at the early years of Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford's relationship in Cornwall and how after her death he returned to.
Mar 2, 2020 · The door of the St Juliot rectory was opened to him by the rector’s sister-in-law, Emma Gifford. The rector himself was in bed with gout and his wife was upstairs at his bedside.
In 1874, Thomas Hardy married Emma Gifford, a woman who never let her novelist husband forget that she was born of a higher class than he, ever his superior in taste and breeding. After her death he got back at her—poetically—in a big way. And she at him.
People also ask
What are some facts about Emma Gifford?
Who was Emma Lavinia Gifford?
Who were Thomas Hardy and Emma Gifford?
When did Emma Gifford meet Thomas Hardy?
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.
