C. Emmerson (West Beach, Bournemouth)
n.d.
Author Thomas Hardy and Wife On Beach

Gelatin silver print, postcard
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (53 / 47)
 
A relaxed portrait of the great English novelist near the end of his life, with his much younger second wife Florence (who had been his secretary.) His first wife Emma died in 1912, and Hardy mourned her for the rest of his life; he died in 1928.
 
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