How Long to Read Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy

How Long Does it Take to Read Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy by Emma Lavinia Gifford Hardy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

It has been said that both Thomas Hardy's wives were livelier letter-writers than he was himself. They were certainly less discreet, especially on the subject of their marital grievances, with the result that Hardy's intensely private life and personality are uniquely illuminated in the letters of the two remarkable but very different women who knew him best. Inevitably overshadowed by their husband during their lifetimes, their distinctive voices - together with their particular concerns and their opinions on many other subjects beside their husband - now clearly sound throughout this meticulously edited and fully annotated selection of their letters. Hardy married Emma Lavinia Gifford in 1874, when he was thirty-four and she thirty-three; two years after her death in 1912 he married Florence Emily Dugdale, thirty-eight years his junior. Relatively few of Emma's letters survive, but those included here vividly register not only her distinctive personality and ideas but also, if less directly, the deteriorating later phases of her marriage. Florence Hardy's letters are far more numerous, largely because of her husband's immense fame in old age and her own role as the doorkeeper of Max Gate. Those she wrote as Florence Dugdale - some to Emma Hardy herself - are eloquent of the painful dilemmas created by Hardy's growing dependence on her during Emma's lifetime. The ones written as Florence Hardy - to Sydney Cockerell, Siegfried Sassoon, and many others - constitute a remarkable record of a literary marriage, reflecting fully and poignantly both the rewards and, especially, the costs of being (as her Times obituary put it) the helpmate of genius.

How long is Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy?

Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy by Emma Lavinia Gifford Hardy is 364 pages long, and a total of 92,456 words.

This makes it 123% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy aloud.

What Reading Level is Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy?

Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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