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Showing 31 to 40 of 364 references, ordered by Reference number (ascending)
Reference No. 32: "[XVII, 1889, July 17-23] "Also met Lady Rothschild at Mrs Jeune's; an amply-membered, pleasant wo..."
Quotation: | [XVII, 1889, July 17-23] "Also met Lady Rothschild at Mrs Jeune's; an amply-membered, pleasant woman, unfashionably dressed in brown silk". |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 230 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Dress; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | Brown   |
Reference No. 33: "[[XVII, 1889, July 17-23] Hardy describes meeting Mallock "in a painfully fashionable frock coat...."
Quotation: | [[XVII, 1889, July 17-23] Hardy describes meeting Mallock "in a painfully fashionable frock coat..." |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 230 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Coat; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | n/a   |
Reference No. 34: "[XVIII, 1890, March 15] "With E. To a crush at the Jeunes' to meet the Duke and Duchess of Teck. ..."
Quotation: | [XVIII, 1890, March 15] "With E. To a crush at the Jeunes' to meet the Duke and Duchess of Teck. Young Princess Mary also there. Duchess in black velvet with long black sleeves and a few diamonds. She bears a resemblance to the Queen. The daughter is a pretty young woman in skim-milk-blue muslin .... Lady Burdett Coutts was in a head-dress that was a castellated facade of diamonds...". |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 234 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Dress; Jewellery; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | Black    |
Reference No. 35: "[XVIII, 1890, March 15] "With E. To a crush at the Jeunes' to meet the Duke and Duchess of Teck. ..."
Quotation: | [XVIII, 1890, March 15] "With E. To a crush at the Jeunes' to meet the Duke and Duchess of Teck. Young Princess Mary also there. Duchess in black velvet with long black sleeves and a few diamonds. She bears a resemblance to the Queen. The daughter is a pretty young woman in skim-milk-blue muslin ... Lady Burdett Coutts was in a head-dress that was a castellated facade of diamonds. |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 234 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Dress; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | Blue   |
Reference No. 36: "[XVIII, 1890, March 15] "With E. To a crush at the Jeunes' to meet the Duke and Duchess of Teck. ..."
Quotation: | [XVIII, 1890, March 15] "With E. To a crush at the Jeunes' to meet the Duke and Duchess of Teck. Young Princess Mary also there. Duchess in black velvet with long black sleeves and a few diamonds. She bears a resemblance to the Queen. The daughter is a pretty young woman in skim-milk-blue muslin .... Lady Burdett Coutts was in a head-dress that was a castellated facade of diamonds...". |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 234 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Jewellery; |
Accessories: | Head-dress with diamonds; |
Colours: | n/a   |
Reference No. 37: "[XVIII, 1890, June] "Hardy visited music halls and observed "round-hatted young men gaping at the..."
Quotation: | [XVIII, 1890, June] "Hardy visited music halls and observed "round-hatted young men gaping at the stage, with receding chins and rudimentary mouths ...". |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 237 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Hat; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | n/a   |
Reference No. 38: "[XX, 1892, August 14] "Mother described to-day the three Hardys as they used to appear ... three ..."
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". |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 262 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Coat; Breeches; Neckwear; Shoe; Hat; |
Accessories: | Violin-cello, Gilt coat buttons; |
Colours: | Blue, Black   |
Reference No. 39: "[XXIV, 1897, August 21] Hardy and Emma attended a party at Arlington Manor in Berkshire where the..."
Quotation: | [XXIV, 1897, August 21] Hardy and Emma attended a party at Arlington Manor in Berkshire where they met many Lords and Ladies and "the genial Colonel John Hay the American Ambassador, who appeared in the lightest of summer suits at dinner, his luggage having gone astray...". |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 315 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Suit; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | n/a   |
Reference No. 40: "[I, 1840-48] Jemima describes Hardy's father when she first met him. He was: "rather amusingly ol..."
Quotation: | [I, 1840-48] Jemima describes Hardy's father when she first met him. He was: "rather amusingly old-fashioned, in spite of being decidedly good-looking-wearing the blue swallow tailed coat with gilt embossed buttons then customary, a red and black flowered waist coat, Wellington boots, and French-blue trousers. |
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Author: | Thomas Hardy |
Biography Title: | The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy |
Page No.: | 18 |
First Published: | n/a |
Clothing categories: | Coat; Waistcoat; Trousers; Boots; |
Accessories: | Gilt buttons; |
Colours: | Red and black , Blue  |
Reference No. 42: "Hardy described George Meredith when he first met him, as a "handsome man of forty in a frock coa..."
Quotation: | Hardy described George Meredith when he first met him, as a "handsome man of forty in a frock coat with wavy hair, moustache and brown beard." |
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Author: | Claire Tomalin |
Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man |
Page No.: | 90 |
First Published: | 2006 |
Clothing categories: | Coat; |
Accessories: | |
Colours: | n/a   |
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