Emma Gifford [SEP] date of death
Shaw and his wife in a march in London.
Death.
Emma Hardy died at Max Gate, the house she shared with Hardy near Dorchester on 27 November 1912 at the age of 72. On the 26th she had felt unwell and allowed a doctor to visit but not to examine her. At 8 in the morning of 27 November her maid found Emma 'moaning and terribly ill'. The maid summoned the cook, who attempted to carry her down the staircase but by the time Hardy had been called he
on an architectural mission to restore the parish church of St Juliot in Cornwall, Hardy met and fell in love with Emma Gifford, whom he married in Kensington in the autumn of 1874. renting St David's Villa, Southborough (now Surbiton) for a year. In 1885 Thomas and his wife moved into Max Gate, a house designed by Hardy and built by his brother. Although they later became estranged, Emma's subsequent death in 1912 had a traumatic effect on him and after her death, Hardy made a trip