Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThomas Hardy’s second wife felt their marriage was a “genuine love match”, letters reveal. His second marriage has had less attention but now three letters from Miss Dugdale to her former pupil Harold Barlow reveal her love for the Far From the Madding Crowd writer. The first letter was sent on February 10 1914, not long after Miss Dugdale wed 73-year-old Hardy. In it she says: “I am now the proud and very happy wife of the greatest living English writer – Thomas Hardy. “Although he is much older than myself it is a genuine love match – on my part, at least, for I suppose I ought not to speak for him.

Source: Daily Mirror April 01, 2020 23:01 UTC