Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

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Bibliographic information:

• Title The Publishers Weekly, Volume 70
• Contributors R.R. Bowker Company, Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, Am. Book Trade Association, American Book Trade Union
• Publisher F. Leypoldt, 1906
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Source:
Newspaper Name Index, USA, Canada, and Australia
MyHeritage.com [online database], MyHeritage Ltd.
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Record:
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Reginald Walpole Craigie

Citation:
The Philadelphia Record - 1887-03-23
Text: ... few minutes lo 2 Reginald Walpole Craigie, nephew of the Duchess of Marlborough, arrived, attended by his best man, brother of Campbell Bannerman, thc Liberal member. Tho fifteen minutes? graco allowed thc bride was used by Ibe ...
Publication title: The Philadelphia Record
Publication place: Philadeplhia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Date: Mar 23 1887

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DAR information:

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Source:
Historical Books - Index of Authors and People Mentioned, 1811-2003
MyHeritage.com [online database], MyHeritage Ltd.
https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-11002/historical-boo...

Record:
https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-11002-194745465/laura-ho...
Laura Hortense Arnold

Citation:
Laura Hortense Arnold
Mentioned in: Lineage book / National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Publication year: 1896

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Bibliographic information:

• Genealogy of the Cowles families in America / compiled by Calvin Duvall Cowles.
• by Cowles, Calvin D. (Calvin Duvall), 1849-
• Publication date 1929
• Publisher New Haven, Conn. : Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1929.
• Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• No copyright.
• Pages 1544
• https://archive.org/details/genealogyofcowle00cowl/page/71/mode/1up

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Links:

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G75F-3L8
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K45K-YTJ
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oliver_Hobbes
• https://books.google.com/books?id=IVEYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1013&dq=%22Pear...
• https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp19442/john-olive...
• https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/d9c7a757-c2ef-30b0-a...
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_19...
• https://archives.nypl.org/the/21301
• https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hidden-histories-of-the-dead/m...

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Reginald Walpole Craigie's wife was Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, who were subsequently divorced. Mrs Craigie was a well-known novelist and playwright, writing under the pseudonym of John Oliver Hobbes and the full fascinating story can be read at http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/32612

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Author .Pearl Craigie [pseud. John Oliver Hobbes] was born the first of five children to John Morgan Richards and Laura Hortense [nee Arnold]. Very soon, the family relocated to London, England where the father engaged in a patent medicine business. Pearl was educated at boarding schools and privately hired tutors, but more importantly through her insatiable appetite for literature. She was precocious and gifted, having been published for the first time at age nine. She studied music and the French language in her teens and became accomplished in both. At the age of nineteen, she married Reginald Walpole Craigie. The marriage crumbled quickly, ,but not before she bore a son, John Churchill Craigie. She was granted a divorce on the grounds of adultery and cruelty. Her first acclaimed work was "some emotions and a moral", a novella published in 1891. She produced short stories, essays, plays and nine novels; the most famous of which is "the school for saints" and "Robert Orange". Her life ended suddenly at age thirty-eight from heart failure.

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English Novelist

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English novelist, dramatist, and convert; b. 3 November, 1867; d. 13 August, 1906. She was the eldest daughter of John Morgan Richards, a successful man of business in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and of Laura Hortense Arnold, a lady of distinguished colonial descent. Her father came of an intensely Calvinistic stock long settled in and about New York and New Jersey; and her grandfather, the Rev. James Richards, D.D., was a preacher and theological writer of some distinction in his time. In February, 1887, before she had completed her twentieth year, Miss Richards was married to Mr. Reginald Walpole Craigie, an English gentleman of good connections. The union, however, proved an uncongenial one, and Mrs. Craigie soon sought and obtained a legal separation with the right to the custody of her child. In 1892, as the result, it would seem, of much private and independent reflection, she was received into the Church. She had begun to turn her thoughts seriously to literature some time before this event; for already in 1891 she had ventured before the public under the pseudonym which she insisted on retaining long after her identity was known, and challenged the puzzled critics by a book to which she gave the unconventional title of "Some Emotions and a Moral". Success waited upon her from the start: "The Sinner's Comedy" (1892); "A Study in Temptations" (1893); "A Bundle of Life" (1894); "The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham" (1895); "The Herb Moon" (1896); "The School for Saints" (1897); "Robert Orange" (1900); "A Serious Wooing" (1901); "Love and the Soul Hunters" (1902); "The Vineyard" (1904); "The Flute of Pan" (1905); "The Dream and the Business" (published after her death of 1906); - these with plays like "Journeys End in Lovers Meeting: Proverb," in one act, written for Miss Ellen Terry (1894); "the Ambassador", produced at the St. James's theatre in London (1898); "Osbern and Ursyne", a tragedy in three acts, published in the "Anglo-Saxon Review" (1899); "A Repentance", a drama in one act, produced at the St. James's Theatre and afterwards at Carisbrooke Castle (1899); "The Wisdom of the Wise", produced at the St. James's theatre (1900); and "The Bishop's Move" (1902), of which she was author only in part, represent the sum of her considered work, the output she preferred to be judged by. As she grew older in the wisdom of her art, the religious quality which seems to lie inevitably behind all her theory of life emerged more and more into prominence. It reached its height in "The School for Saints" and its sequel "Robert Orange". Whether in literary form or in artistic intention she never rose beyond the achievement of these two books. They are intensely serious, intensely human, and almost too religious; yet they are modern and alive. Mrs. Craigie was in the full enjoyment of a well deserved fame, yet hardly at the acme of her powers, when death came to her suddenly from heart disease.