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Showing 71 to 80 of 364 references, ordered by Reference number (ascending)
Reference No. 75: ""Hardy changed his appearance, shaving off the beard he had worn throughout their marriage. Inste..."
| Quotation: | "Hardy changed his appearance, shaving off the beard he had worn throughout their marriage. Instead of continuing as a respectably bewhiskered Victorian, he gave himself a smooth chin and cheeks and kept only a moustache, which he waxed with a dashing effect and which proclaimed him a man of the world." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 242 |
| First Published: | n/a |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 76: ""Max Gate garden parties were a feature of every summer. There are photographs showing large grou..."
| Quotation: | "Max Gate garden parties were a feature of every summer. There are photographs showing large groups of assembled guests, all in the thick layered clothing favoured by the middle classes of the period, even when the thermometer soared upwards, and the women under elaborate hats." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 286 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Hat; |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 77: "Emma: "Photographs of her in old age still show two curls emerging from the cap on her forehead, ..."
| Quotation: | Emma: "Photographs of her in old age still show two curls emerging from the cap on her forehead, curls that had once pleased Hardy so much he gave them to Anne, the pretty heroine of The Trumpet Major." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 289 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Cap; |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 78: "Emma: "Photographs of her in old age still show two curls emerging from the cap on her forehead, ..."
| Quotation: | Emma: "Photographs of her in old age still show two curls emerging from the cap on her forehead, curls that had once pleased Hardy so much he gave them to Anne, the pretty heroine of The Trumpet Major." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 289 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Cap; |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 79: ""Macmillan brought out a complete edition of The Dynasts in November 1910...it has a portrait of ..."
| Quotation: | "Macmillan brought out a complete edition of The Dynasts in November 1910...it has a portrait of Hardy, engraved from a painting made by his sister Mary, as frontispiece. He is almost smiling, and his hair, eyebrows and moustache are now quite white and look as soft as cotton wool." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 294 |
| First Published: | n/a |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 80: "Description of Florence Dugdale. "She was...pleasant-looking, with dark hair and large grey eyes-..."
| Quotation: | Description of Florence Dugdale. "She was...pleasant-looking, with dark hair and large grey eyes-'large luminous living eyes', he wrote in his poem 'After the Visit'. Her manner was mild, her voice gentle and she moved lightly on her feet." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 298 |
| First Published: | n/a |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 81: "On Hardy's birthday, on 2 June, Yeats and Henry Newbolt travelled to Max Gate to present him with..."
| Quotation: | On Hardy's birthday, on 2 June, Yeats and Henry Newbolt travelled to Max Gate to present him with the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature. |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 307 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | |
| Accessories: | Gold medal; |
| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 82: "Arthur Benson's description of Emma. "Here was a small, pretty, rather mincing old lady with hair..."
| Quotation: | Arthur Benson's description of Emma. "Here was a small, pretty, rather mincing old lady with hair curiously puffed and padded rather fantastically dressed." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 308 |
| First Published: | n/a |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 83: "Arthur Benson's description of Hardy: "very small and lean and faintly browned. His features are ..."
| Quotation: | Arthur Benson's description of Hardy: "very small and lean and faintly browned. His features are curiously worn and blurred and ruinous. He has a rather long head, bald, with thin longish hair at the back, fine expressive eyebrows and rather lustreless dark eyes." |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 308 |
| First Published: | n/a |
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| Colours: | n/a |
Reference No. 84: "Hardy and Florence married in "The Dugdale's parish church St. Andrew's... Florence wore a dark c..."
| Quotation: | Hardy and Florence married in "The Dugdale's parish church St. Andrew's... Florence wore a dark costume and felt hat: 'there never was a more unbridal dress and hat than mine, both atrociously ugly,' she wrote. |
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| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Biography Title: | Thomas Hardy The Time-Torn Man |
| Page No.: | 317 |
| First Published: | n/a |
| Clothing categories: | Dress; Hat; |
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| Colours: | n/a |
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