Florence Emily Dugdale (12 January 1879 – 17 October 1937) was an English teacher and children's writer, who was the second wife of the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy.

She began training at St Andrew's Girls School, where she and her sister Ethel received prizes from the Diocesan Board of Education for "Religious Knowledge and a proficiency in secular subjects".

She became his passionate friend and helper, and stopped teaching in 1908; both to assist Hardy and to begin her writing career.

Dugdale died at Max Gate, the home she had shared with Hardy, of cancer, aged 58.

She was cremated in Woking Crematorium, and her ashes were buried in Stinsford churchyard, where Hardy's heart and his first wife were interred.