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Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma Gifford

  

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Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma Gifford : [Unknown - Poetry]

'On the day that the bloody battle of Gravellote was fought [August 18, 1870] they [Hardy and Emma] were reading Tennyson in the grounds of the rectory.'

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Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma Gifford     
  

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