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Author:
Claire Tomalin
Biography Title:
Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man
Page No.:
234
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
Penguin Books
First Published:
n/a
Person:
Emma Hardy
Clothing:
Colours:
Green
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
Hardy had "always admired the Bathsheba side of Emma, wonderfully displayed when, at the age of fifty-five, she learnt to ride a bicycle, which was green and known as 'The Grasshopper'. Later she acuired a blue one, with matching blue costume."
Notes:
Emma was a New Woman in many ways and had always been somewhat of a rebel; this is illustrated through her riding her horse alone and unchaperoned in Cornwall from a young age.