A cikin 1870, yayin da yake kan aikin gine-gine don mayar da cocin Ikklisiya na St Juliot a Cornwall, Hardy ya sadu da kuma ƙaunaci Emma Gifford, wanda ya yi aure a Kensington a cikin kaka na 1874. ya yi hayar St David's Villa, Southborough (yanzu Surbiton) na shekara guda. A 1885 Thomas da matarsa suka koma Max Gate, gidan da Hardy ya tsara kuma ɗan'uwansa ya gina. Ko da yake sun zama baƙi daga baya, mutuwar Emma a 1912 yana da mummunar tasiri a gare shi kuma bayan mutuwarta, Hardy ya yi tafiya zuwa Cornwall don sake duba wuraren da suka danganci auren su; 1912 Poems <unk>13 bayan mutuwarta. A shekara ta 1914, Hardy ya auri sakatarensa Emily Florence, wanda yake da shekaru 39. Duk da haka, ya ci gaba da damuwa da mutuwar matarsa na farko kuma ya yi ƙoƙari ya shawo kan mutuwar matarsa na farko.
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