John Oliver Hobbes

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John Oliver Hobbes (1902, photography by George Charles Beresford )
John Oliver Hobbes (drawn by William Rothenstein )

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (born November 3, 1867 in Boston , Massachusetts , † August 13, 1906 in London , England ) was an American - British writer and dramaturge who published under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes .

Life

Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie was the eldest daughter of businessman John Morgan Richards and his wife Laura Hortense, née Arnold. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to London , where, in addition to further lessons in Paris, they also received training. At the age of 19 she married Reginald Walpole Craigie, with whom she had a son. Because the marriage was unhappy, they divorced in 1895. Already in 1892 she had converted from Protestant nonconformism to the Roman Catholic Church . From 1900 she lived in her villa near her parents' estate in Steephill , Isle of Wight . In 1906 she died suddenly of a heart attack in London while on a trip to Scotland.

Craigie's first work, Some Emotions and a Moral , was published in Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym Library in 1891 under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes . In addition to her writing, which included A Bundle of Life , Love and the Soul Hunters and Flute of Pan , Hobbes also wrote three plays. In Germany, three of her works, The Gods, some mortals and Lord Wickenham , The serious Wooing and The Dream and the business, were published in their original language by the Leipziger Tauchnitz Verlag.

Works

  • 1891: Some Emotions and a Moral
  • 1893: A study in Temptations
  • 1895: The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickensham
  • 1894: A Bundle of Life
  • 1900: Robert Orange
  • 1901: The Serious Wooing
  • 1902: Love and the Soul Hunters
  • 1904: The Vineyard
  • 1905: Flute of Pan
  • 1906: The Dream and the Business

Plays

  • 1894: Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (for Ellen Terry )
  • 1898: The Ambassador
  • 1899: A Repentance

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personal data
SURNAME Hobbes, John Oliver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Craigie, Pearl Mary Teresa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-British writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1906
Place of death London , England