Emma Hardy

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.

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

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 .