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Thomas Hardy Memorial Window - Stinsford Church DSC_0461

Dr Douglas A Strachan (1875-1950) designed this Thomas Hardy memorial stained glass window in1930. It was unveiled by Lady Ilchester. Originally Florence was due to unveil the window but fearful of bad publicity after the publication of Somerset Maugham's "Cake and Ale" published in the September of 1930. In it portrais a young secound wife of a famous author who did very well out of his death. Florence felt that the book was directed at them (the Hardy's) although Maugham always denied the facts.

 

Set in the south aisle it displays Thomas Hardy's favorite Old Testament story (I Kings, chapter 19 of which Hardy refers to in the poem "Quid Hic Agis?") in which Elijah, robed in purple, listens to the still small voice after the tumult of wind, earthquake, and fire.

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Uploaded on December 23, 2013
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