Reds fan inks it’s all over..
Letters reveal author’s wife wished to be far from the madding crowd
AN avid Liverpool fan who had the words ‘Premier League Champions 20192020’ tattooed on his arm has “no regrets”.
Liverpool appeared to be coasting to their first title in the Premier League era when Mark Gretton, 53, had his inking done.
But football in the UK is on hold at the moment due to the coronavirus.
Mark of Lancing, West Sussex, said: “I have no regrets. If they cancel the league, which I doubt, I will say we morally won.”
THOMAS Hardy’s second wife felt their marriage was a “genuine love match”, letters reveal.
Florence Dugdale, a children’s author and teacher who was 39 years his junior, described him as “one of the kindest, most humane men in the world”.
They married in 1914, two years after the death of his estranged first wife Emma Lavinia Gifford, whose early romance with the author forms the
Newlywed Florence Dugdale tells of her love for husband Hardy background to several of his novels. His Exeter, who is leading a project documenting second marriage has had less attention Hardy. The first letter was sent but now three letters from Miss Dugdale on February 10 1914, not long after Miss to her former pupil Harold Barlow Dugdale wed 73-year-old Hardy. reveal her love for the Far From In it she says: “I am now the the Madding Crowd writer. proud and very happy wife of
The letters were kept by Mr the greatest living English Barlow’s daughter Josephine, writer – Thomas Hardy. and were found by his grandsons “Although he is much older Ian and Colin Nicol. than myself it is a genuine
Ian recently passed the love match – on my part, at letters to Professor Angelique least, for I suppose I ought not to Richardson at the University of LETTERS Ian Nicol speak for him. At any rate I
know I have for a husband one of the kindest, most humane men in the world.”
She also complained of widespread media interest in her across Britain, Europe and the US, saying: “I am tired of this publicity.”
Professor Richardson said the letters “give an intimate glimpse into life at Hardy’s home”. They have now been included in the Hardy Collection at the Dorset County Museum.