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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 detailed her marriage to Hardy and later her feelings of loss after his death. Published Apr 1, 2020. Newly discovered letters show Thomas Hardy’s second wife’s joy and happiness at her marriage and her sadness and loneliness after his death.
Apr 1, 2020 · Florence Dugdale detailed her marriage to Hardy and later her feelings of loss after his death.
Apr 1, 2020 · But his marriage to Florence Dugdale has received less attention. In the three letters to a former student, Harold Barlow, the children’s author and teacher writes that her marriage is a...
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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.
