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Author:
Thomas Hardy
Biography Title:
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Page No.:
104-5
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
The Macmillan Press Ltd
First Published:
n/a
Person:
Julia Augusta
Clothing:
Dress;
Colours:
Grey
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
[VII, 1874] About the rich old lady who used to call Hardy Tommy when he was a boy and wrote to him on the publication of Far From the Madding Crowd: "...by signing her letter 'Julia Augusta"' she revived throbs of feeling in him, and brought back to his memory the thrilling 'frou-frou' of her four grey silk flounces when she had used to bend over him, and when they brushed against the font as she entered church on Sundays."