Air-bird in the Water: The Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes)

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 535 pages
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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Contents

Authors Note
9
Preface
11
Acknowledgments
17
1867 and Before
23
18671887
30
18871891
53
1892
66
18921893
81
18981900
246
19001901
265
1901
281
19011902
298
19021903
317
1903
343
1903 Continued
363
1904
376

1894
97
18941895
122
1895
140
18951896
159
18961897
175
1897
191
18981899
208
18981899 Continued
230
1904 Continued
395
19051906
414
1906
439
1906 and After
464
Notes
481
Bibliography
519
Index
527
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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.

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