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Author:
Claire Tomalin
Biography Title:
Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man
Page No.:
243
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
Penguin Books
First Published:
n/a
Character:
Lady Susan O'Brien
Clothing:
Cloak;
Colours:
Red
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
Description by Hardy's father of the widow Lady Susan O'Brien from Stinsford House where Jemima had worked. She had "employed Hardy's grandfather to build the vault in the church for her husband and herself; and where Hardy's father 'when a boy chorister in the gallery of the church used to see her, an old and lonely widow, walking in the garden in a red cloak.'