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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... charm ... sparkling comedy ... scintillating wit . " Like an apparition , " said Lord Curzon at Pearl Craigie's memorial service , " she burst upon the scene in her young prime , flashed across it in a swift trail of light , and ...
... charm ... sparkling comedy ... scintillating wit . " Like an apparition , " said Lord Curzon at Pearl Craigie's memorial service , " she burst upon the scene in her young prime , flashed across it in a swift trail of light , and ...
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... a passion for the theater , as well as personal warmth , generosity , and charm — all qualities that would also characterize his famous daughter . Two years after John's mother's death , James Richards remarried 26 AIR - BIRD IN THE WATER.
... a passion for the theater , as well as personal warmth , generosity , and charm — all qualities that would also characterize his famous daughter . Two years after John's mother's death , James Richards remarried 26 AIR - BIRD IN THE WATER.
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... charming , young Pearl Richards was apparently destined to shine in fashionable society and to be extraordinarily happy ; and her father's accounts of her early years convey just that impression.1 Yet , in the second half , after being ...
... charming , young Pearl Richards was apparently destined to shine in fashionable society and to be extraordinarily happy ; and her father's accounts of her early years convey just that impression.1 Yet , in the second half , after being ...
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... charming photograph of Pearl at age five - half - reclining , pensive , lips quirked , wavy brown hair flowing around her shoulders — she is clad from neck to toe in boys ' clothing . Her father explains : Since the child had the run of ...
... charming photograph of Pearl at age five - half - reclining , pensive , lips quirked , wavy brown hair flowing around her shoulders — she is clad from neck to toe in boys ' clothing . Her father explains : Since the child had the run of ...
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18871891 | 53 |
1892 | 66 |
18921893 | 81 |
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.