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To appreciate the friendship which sprang up between Hardy and Florence Henniker, its origins and the tenor of their early correspondence, one needs to know something of her parentage, background, and upbringing, even about her father when he was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became one of Alfred Tennyson’s best friends.
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T. W. Reid, The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes, First Lord Houghton, London, 1890, vol. II, pp. 85–6.
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Pinion, F.B. (1990). Hardy and Mrs Henniker. In: Hardy the Writer. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389458_10
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