Emma Hardy

TH married Emma Lavinia Gifford at St Peter's Church in Paddington, with none of his own relations present.

TH 's first wife, Emma , died at Max Gate; though her health had been declining, her death was sudden.

Sixteen months after his first wife 's death, TH married the much younger Florence Emily Dugdale , with great secresy, at Enfield, where she lived.

The title of the volume is appropriate in that it appeared nine months after Hardy's second marriage, while its best-known contents are the pieces contained in the section Poems of 1912-13: his astonishing lyrical...

Since the Langham Place Group had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club came on the scene at a time...

The fierce criticism of Jude the Obscure (mainly on moral grounds) played a part in Hardy's renunciation of fiction for poetry. One of those most disturbed by the novel's critique of organized religion was Hardy's...

TH and his wife moved into their newly-built house on the outskirts of Dorchester, named Max Gate.

TH published another volume of poetry: Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces, which famously contains his poems on the death of his first wife .