Air-bird in the Water: The Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes)Harding traces Craigie's crowded external and inner life and her connections with such important people as George Moore, Lord and Lady Curzon, and Jennie Churchill, and with literature, journalism, theater, politics, and religion at the turn of the century. The author also analyzes and evaluates Hobbes's numerous works (novels, short stories, plays, lectures, journalistic essays), linking Craigie's life with her work. |
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... George Eliot , Meredith , Hardy , and James , but worthy to stand among them ... in some ways ' modern , ' too , kin to Woolf , Greene , Waugh , Murdoch . " And my fascination with the brilliant , enigmatic woman mirrored in those works ...
... George Eliot , Meredith , Hardy , and James , but worthy to stand among them ... in some ways ' modern , ' too , kin to Woolf , Greene , Waugh , Murdoch . " And my fascination with the brilliant , enigmatic woman mirrored in those works ...
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... George Moore ( London : Victor Gollancz Ltd. , 1936 ) . For permission to publish certain illustrations , I am grateful to the following : The National Portrait Gallery , London ; The National Portrait Gallery ( Smithsonian ) ...
... George Moore ( London : Victor Gollancz Ltd. , 1936 ) . For permission to publish certain illustrations , I am grateful to the following : The National Portrait Gallery , London ; The National Portrait Gallery ( Smithsonian ) ...
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... George Tyrrell . Some were painters as widely different as Walter Spindler and l'enfant terrible Aubrey Beardsley . Some were musicians — for example , Sir Hubert Parry , the composer , and Mlle Maria Janotha , a pianist popular in ...
... George Tyrrell . Some were painters as widely different as Walter Spindler and l'enfant terrible Aubrey Beardsley . Some were musicians — for example , Sir Hubert Parry , the composer , and Mlle Maria Janotha , a pianist popular in ...
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1892 | 66 |
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18981900 | 246 |
19001901 | 265 |
1901 | 281 |
19011902 | 298 |
19021903 | 317 |
1903 | 343 |
1903 Continued | 363 |
1904 | 376 |
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Page 25 - Why look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my loudest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music, excellent voice in this little organ, yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a Pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.