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PEARL MARY TERESA CRAIGIE (1867–1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEARL See also:MARY TERESA See also:CRAIGIE (1867–1906)  , Anglo-See also:American novelist and dramatist, who wrote under the See also:pen-name of " See also:JOHN See also:OLIVER See also:HOBBES," was See also:born at See also:Boston, U.S.A., on the 3rd of See also:November 1867 . She was the See also:elder daughter of John See also:Morgan See also:Richards, and was educated in See also:London and See also:Paris . When she was nineteen she married Reginald See also:Walpole See also:Craigie, by whom she had one son, John See also:Churchill Craigie: but the See also:marriage proved an unhappy one, and was dissolved on her See also:petition in See also:July 1895 . She was brought up as a See also:Nonconformist, but in 1892 was received into the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church, of which she remained a devout and serious member . Her first little See also:book, the brilliant and epigrammatic Some Emotions and a Moral, was published in 1891 in Mr See also:Fisher Unwin's " See also:Pseudonym Library," and was followed by The Sinner's See also:Comedy (r892), A Study in Temptations (1893), A Bundle of See also:Life (1894), The Gods, Some Mortals, and See also:Lord Wickenham . The See also:Herb See also:Moon (±896), a See also:country love See also:story, was followed by The School for See also:Saints (1897), with a sequel, See also:Robert See also:Orange (1900) . Mrs Craigie had already written a one-See also:act " See also:proverb," Journeys end in Lovers See also:Meeting, produced by Ellen See also:Terry in 1894, and a three-act tragedy, " Osbern and Ursyne," printed in the Anglo-Saxon See also:Review (1899), when her successful piece, The See also:Ambassador, was produced at the St See also:James's See also:Theatre in 1898 . A Repentance (one act, 1899) and The See also:Wisdom of the See also:Wise (1900) were produced at the same theatre, and The See also:Flute of See also:Fan (1904) first at See also:Manchester and then at the See also:Shaftesbury theatre; she was also See also:part author of The See also:Bishop's Move (See also:Garrick Theatre, 1902) . Later books are The Serious Wooing (1901), Love and the Soul Hunters (1902), Tales about Temperament (1902), The Vineyard (1904) . Mrs Craigie died suddenly of See also:heart failure in London on the 13th of See also:August 1906 .

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