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Reference 11 of 364 ordered by: Reference number (ascending)
Author: Thomas Hardy
Biography Title: The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Page No.: 81
Researcher: Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher: The Macmillan Press Ltd
First Published: n/a
Person: Emma Hardy
Clothing: Dress;
Colours: Blue  
Material: n/a
Quotation: [V, 1870, August] Hardy returned to Cornwall and "found the 'young lady in brown' of the previous winter - at that time thickly muffled from the wind - to have become metamorphosed into a young lady in summer blue, which suited her fair complexion far better".
Notes: See also mention of the"air-blue gown" in Reference 46.
Themes or Symbolism: n/a