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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’.
2 ago 2012 · It was while Hardy was in St Juliot in Cornwall in 1870 , busy with restoring the old church there, that he met Emma Lavinia Gifford. It was with her in mind that he wrote A Pair of Blue Eyes . She was said to be a real beauty then with her vivid blue eyes, long auburn ringlets and rosy cheeks.
- Loretta Proctor
11 lug 2020 · On the first day that Hardy arrived at St Juliot church Emma Lavinia Gifford was there to meet him. She was working as a governess and was outgoing and well-educated. She was also strikingly beautiful with bright blue eyes and a mass of auburn hair.
2 apr 2020 · By 1910 she was typing up a novella, “The Maid on the Shore”, by Hardy’s first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford. Emma had also written “The Inspirer”, about a woman who inspired her husband’s novels.
Emma Gifford was living at the rectory with her sister, the Revd Cadell Holder’s second wife. The first visit lasted four days during which Hardy visited Tintagel, Beeny Cliff and the Valency Valley.
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".
