 Tryphena Sparks

Tryphena Sparks (20 March 1851 – 17 March 1890), born in Puddletown, Dorset, the youngest child of James and Maria Sparks, was Thomas Hardy's cousin and possible lover, when she was 16 and he was 26.Hardy's mother suggested that Tryphena was not actually his cousin but his niece and he was thus prevented from marrying her.