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Florence Emily Dugdale (12 January 1879 – 17 October 1937) was an English teacher and children's writer, who was the second wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.
Apr 1, 2020 · Newly discovered letters from novelist Thomas Hardy's second wife have offered a glimpse of their home life in Dorset. In the correspondence, the children's author and teacher Florence Dugdale...
Apr 1, 2020 · Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, expressed her love and happiness in three letters to Harold Barlow, a former student of Hardy. The letters, discovered by his grandsons, reveal her views on Hardy, his first wife, and the media attention.
Apr 1, 2020 · Florence Dugdale detailed her marriage to Hardy and later her feelings of loss after his death.
Apr 1, 2020 · Florence Dugdale, Thomas Hardy's second wife, wrote to Harold Barlow about her love, happiness and sadness in 1914. The letters, discovered by his grandsons, reveal her feelings and Hardy's character.
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Florence, who was a children’s writer as well as a teacher, had been introduced to Hardy late in 1905. 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.
