Poetic Obituaries: The Rumbolds bought the Old Rectory at Stinsford,

where Thomas Hardy's heart lies in the grave of his first wife, and Pauline enjoyed showing friends the larder, where the great poet's heart had waited, overnight, to be buried. Congenial dinners at Stinsford often ran into the small hours, as guests talked animatedly around the fire in the dark green drawing room, its walls lined with poetry books and paintings.

Always a lover of language, Pauline Rumbold became a founder member of the Prayer Book Society, devoted to saving the rites of 1662. In 1989 the Folio Society published an edition of her translations into plain English of the Dorset dialect poet William Barnes; and her own poems, Loaves and Fishes, were published in 1992.

from Telegraph: Lady Rumbold

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