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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... father's darling , married high - born , high - flying Reginald Walpole Craigie . Four years later , with her infant son , she fled from the " boa constrictor " ( as she described him ) back to her fam- ily's London home - a scandalous ...
... father's darling , married high - born , high - flying Reginald Walpole Craigie . Four years later , with her infant son , she fled from the " boa constrictor " ( as she described him ) back to her fam- ily's London home - a scandalous ...
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... father but the author of two of my main sources : an autobiography , With John Bull and Jonathan ( London : T. Werner Laurie , 1905 ) , and a biography of his daughter , The Life of John Oliver Hobbes : Told in Her Correspondence with ...
... father but the author of two of my main sources : an autobiography , With John Bull and Jonathan ( London : T. Werner Laurie , 1905 ) , and a biography of his daughter , The Life of John Oliver Hobbes : Told in Her Correspondence with ...
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... father's and her mother's side , Pearl's family was solid , upper- middle - class American well educated , hard ... father , Captain Seth Harris Arnold , of Nova Scotia , moved his family to Chelsea when Laura was three years old ...
... father's and her mother's side , Pearl's family was solid , upper- middle - class American well educated , hard ... father , Captain Seth Harris Arnold , of Nova Scotia , moved his family to Chelsea when Laura was three years old ...
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... father taught , yellow fever broke out and they were " driven out " into the interior , to a slave plantation ... father's personal effects , including his library of some 3000 books , take the steamer to New York , and join his father ...
... father taught , yellow fever broke out and they were " driven out " into the interior , to a slave plantation ... father's personal effects , including his library of some 3000 books , take the steamer to New York , and join his father ...
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... father's accounts of her early years convey just that impression.1 Yet , in the second half , after being catapulted traumatically into the real world East of Eden , the adult Pearl Richards Craigie was not merely the vivacious and much ...
... father's accounts of her early years convey just that impression.1 Yet , in the second half , after being catapulted traumatically into the real world East of Eden , the adult Pearl Richards Craigie was not merely the vivacious and much ...
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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.