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Showing 11 to 20 of 364 references, ordered by Reference number (ascending)
Reference No. 12: "[V, 1870, August] Hardy returned to Cornwall and "found the 'young lady in brown' of the previous..."
| 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". |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 81 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Dress; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | Blue |
Reference No. 13: "[VII, 1873, October] In a letter about Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy wrote: "In reference to ..."
| Quotation: | [VII, 1873, October] In a letter about Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy wrote: "In reference to the illustrations, I have sketched in my note-book during the past summer a few correct outlines of smockfrocks, gaiters, sheep crooks, rick-'staddles'...". |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 99 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Smock; |
| Accessories: | Gaiters; |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 14: "[VII, 1874] About the rich old lady who used to call Hardy Tommy when he was a boy and wrote to h..."
| 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." |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 104-5 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Dress; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | Grey |
Reference No. 15: "[VII, 1875, March 23] About Leslie Stephen: "...I received from Stephen a mysterious note asking ..."
| Quotation: | [VII, 1875, March 23] About Leslie Stephen: "...I received from Stephen a mysterious note asking me to call in the evening, as late as I liked. I went, and found him alone, wandering up and down his library in slippers; his tall thin figure wrapt in a heath-coloured dressing gown". |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 108 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Nightwear; Slipper; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | Brown |
Reference No. 16: "[VIII, 1877, June 29] Hardy and Emma's servant "crept downstairs, went out, and on looking from t..."
| Quotation: | [VIII, 1877, June 29] Hardy and Emma's servant "crept downstairs, went out, and on looking from the back window of our bedroom I saw her come from the outhouse with a man. She appeared to have only her night-gown on and something round her shoulders ... He had evidently often stayed in the house."She remained quiet till between four and five, when she got out of the dining room window and vanished." June 30. About one o'clock went to her father's cottage ... She had not been home. I remembered that she had dressed up in her best clothes, and she probably has gone to Stalbridge to her lover". |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 118 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Nightwear; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 17: "[IX, 1878, June 16] Emma and Hardy went to dinner at Alexander Macmillan's where he told them a s..."
| Quotation: | [IX, 1878, June 16] Emma and Hardy went to dinner at Alexander Macmillan's where he told them a story that "the late Mrs Carlyle told him. One day when she was standing alone on Craigenputtock Moor ... she discerned in the distance a red spot. It proved to be the red cloak of a woman who passed for a witch in those parts." |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 124 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Cloak; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | Red |
Reference No. 18: "[IX, 1879, June 9] To the International Literary Congress at the rooms of the Society of Arts. Me..."
| Quotation: | [IX, 1879, June 9] To the International Literary Congress at the rooms of the Society of Arts. Met M. de Lesseps. A few days afterwards to the Soirée Musicale at the Hanover Square Club, to meet members of the Literary Congress and the Comédie Française: A large gathering ... I was a total stranger, and wondered why I was there: many others were total strangers to everybody else; ... A little old Frenchman, however, who bustled about in a skullcap and frilled shirt, seemed to know everybody." |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 130 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Shirt; Cap; |
| Accessories: | Frilled Shirt, Skullcap; |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 19: "[IX, 1879, June 21] With E. to Bosworth Smith's, Harrow (for the weekend). In the aviary he has a..."
| Quotation: | [IX, 1879, June 21] With E. to Bosworth Smith's, Harrow (for the weekend). In the aviary he has a raven and a barn owl. One ridiculously small boy in tails - he must have been a bright boy, but I forgot to ask about him. One of the boys in charity-tails could have eaten him." |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 130 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Suit; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 20: "[IX, 1879, July 8 or 9] Hardy attended a garden party with Emma at Mrs Macmillan's at Knapdale: "..."
| Quotation: | [IX, 1879, July 8 or 9] Hardy attended a garden party with Emma at Mrs Macmillan's at Knapdale: "...met a Mrs H., who pretended to be an admirer of my books, and apparently had never read one. She had with her an American lady, sallow, with black dancing eyes, dangling earrings, yellow costume, and gay laugh." |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 131 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Dress; Jewellery; |
| Accessories: | Earrings; |
| Colours: | Yellow |
Reference No. 21: "[X, 1880, March] Describing Tennyson's appearance: "Hardy often said he was surprised to find suc..."
| Quotation: | [X, 1880, March] Describing Tennyson's appearance: "Hardy often said he was surprised to find such an expression of hunour in the poet-laureate's face, the corners of his mouth twitching with that mood when he talked; it was a genial human face...enhanced by a beard and hair straggling like briars, a shirt with a large loose collar, and old steel spectacles." |
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| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
| Page No.: | 140 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Dress; Shirt; Spectacles; |
| Accessories: | |
| Colours: | n/a |
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