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Author:
Thomas Hardy
Biography Title:
The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
Page No.:
262
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
The Macmillan Press Ltd
First Published:
n/a
Person:
Hardy's grandfather
Clothing:
Coat; Breeches; Neckwear; Shoe; Hat;
Colours:
Blue, Black
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
[XX, 1892, August 14] "Mother described to-day the three Hardys as they used to appear ... three or four years before my birth. They were always hurrying, being rather late, their fiddles and violin-cello in green-baize bags under their left arms. They wore top hats, stick-up shirt-collars, dark blue coats with great collars and gilt buttons, deep cuffs and black silk 'stocks' or neckerchiefs ... My grandfather wore drab cloth breeches and buckled shoes, but his sons wore trousers and wellington boots".