Pearl Richards Craigie (
1867-
1906) was an English novelist. She employed the
pen name John Oliver Hobbes. She was the eldest daughter of John Morgan Richards, a businessman in
Boston, Massachusetts.She married Reginald E. Craigie in
1887 but secured a divorce in
1895. Her style is cynical, brilliant, and epigrammatic, especially in dialogue. She wrote the novels: Some Emotions and a Moral, (1891)A study in Temptations, (1893)The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickensham, (1895)A Bundle of Life, (1894)Robert Orange, (1900)The Serious Wooing, (1901)Love and the Soul Hunters, (1902)The Vineyard, (1904); Flute of Pan, (1905)The Dream and the Business, (1906); posthumous,
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