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...
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parish church of St Juliot in Cornwall, Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Gifford, whom he married in Kensington in late 1874, renting St David's Villa...
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Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun control activist. She served as a member of the United States House...
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)—when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford. The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now...
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novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. In fact, of Hardy's early novels, this is probably the most densely...
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church's restoration in March 1870 and this is where he met his first wife, Emma Gifford, who was the Rector's sister-in-law. Their love affair was the inspiration...
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reference to Hardy's trip to St Juliot, where he met his first wife Emma Gifford. The poem said Lyonnesse is "a hundred miles away"; the straight-line...
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David's Villa' in Hook Road, Surbiton for a year after his marriage to Emma Gifford. H.G.Wells, in his comic novel The Wheels of Chance, describes the cycle...
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of Baby Birds, with Hardy's contribution. In the same year, Hardy's wife Emma died. In 1913, Dugdale moved into Hardy's home Max Gate in Dorchester, Dorset...
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Roquette Prisons in Paris. March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall. March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's The Bowery...
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John Murray's reader, William Gifford, who was also the editor of the Quarterly Review, said of the novel that "Of Emma I have nothing but good to say...
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Emma Bridgewater, Nell Gifford and Clover Stroud". Country and Town House. Retrieved 23 April 2023. Willsher, Kim (23 December 2019). "Nell Gifford obituary"...
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the...
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Nell Gifford (born Eleanor Rose Stroud; 24 January 1973 – 8 December 2019) was a writer and the founding director of Giffords Circus. Gifford was born...
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House. Established in 2000, Giffords Circus is a small circus company, founded by Nell Gifford and her husband Toti Gifford, that tours market towns of...
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Andrea Rose; curator: Richard Riley) 2013 — Jeremy Deller (Curator: Emma Gifford-Mead) 2015 — Sarah Lucas (Curator: Richard Riley) 2017 — Phyllida Barlow...
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that Hardy met his future wife Emma Gifford while on a trip to Cornwall, and ended when he became engaged to Gifford. Sparks is considered by John Fowles...
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Chuck Bednarik (section Gifford hit)
Bednarik's clothesline tackle of Gifford dropped Gifford immediately to the ground, and Gifford immediately went unconscious. Gifford was transported from the...
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Edwin Goldmann. The wedding was attended by Thomas Hardy and his wife Emma Gifford. Lorna died in 1919, after her husband, leaving a daughter Lorna (born...
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John Gifford (1758 – 6 March 1818) was an English political writer. He was born John Richards Green until changing his name at the age of 23. Gifford wrote...
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and prose writer Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet, met his wife Emma Gifford, while he was working at St Juliot church, near Boscastle (some of his...
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There he met Emma Gifford, sister-in-law of the vicar of St Juliot. She encouraged him in his writing, and they were married in 1874. After Emma Hardy died...
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centuries. Thomas Hardy came to Lanivet in August 1872 to visit the home of Emma Gifford where he was introduced to her parents at Kirland House. He wrote a poem...
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1884 to 1889 he was Archdeacon of London. He died on 4 May 1905. Emma Lavinia Gifford, the first wife of Thomas Hardy, was his niece. Glory of God in Man...
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The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, previously known as the Legal Community Against Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, is...
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Emma (Emme, or Agnes) of Anjou (c.1140–c.1214) was an illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and half-sister of King Henry II of...
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Aimee Semple McPherson is a musical with a book and lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman. The musical has had productions...
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Private Personal Chef, New York, NY (eliminated after the appetizer) Gypsy Gifford, Executive Chef, Cafe Pinot, Los Angeles, CA (eliminated after the entrée)...
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neo-noir film directed by David Lynch, and co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford. It stars Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, and Robert...
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Moira Reilly Jim Hunter Tam Logan Lady Margaret Ross Gifford Vieven Howard Constable Graham McPhee Emma Aitken (Amanda Whitehead) Colin Begg (Kern Falconer)...
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