Contents

Author’s Note

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Maps

Family Trees

 1.  Early Life: Influences

 2.  Religion: Love: Crime: Punishment

 3.  Emma: A Successful Author

 4.  Emma Inspires a Novel

 5.  Marriage

 6.  A Plethora of Novels

 7.  Dorchester: Max Gate

 8.  Jude the Obscure

 9.  Hardy Reveals Himself in Novels & Poems

10.  Life Goes On

11.  From Emma’s Standpoint

12.  The Troubled Lives of the Giffords

13.  The Death of Emma: An Outpouring of Poetry

14.  Hidden Meanings

15.  Florence Emily Hardy

16.  Explaining the Poems

17.  Declining Years

18.  Aftermath

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography