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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... She was traumatized by her marriage and her health was delicate , but she had to deal with such enormous social handicaps as ( Continued on back flap ) Air - Bird in the Water in the Water The Air - Bird in the Water.
... She was traumatized by her marriage and her health was delicate , but she had to deal with such enormous social handicaps as ( Continued on back flap ) Air - Bird in the Water in the Water The Air - Bird in the Water.
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... social climber and a hypocritical religious sensualist . I came to share Moore's fascination with her , but , knowing his propensity to distort and even lie for the sake of a good story , I wondered : What was this remarkable ...
... social climber and a hypocritical religious sensualist . I came to share Moore's fascination with her , but , knowing his propensity to distort and even lie for the sake of a good story , I wondered : What was this remarkable ...
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... social life and friendship , she was associated , sometimes very closely , with an ever - widening circle of distinguished people : all of them admired her , many loved her , several made her proposals of marriage . Some of her close ...
... social life and friendship , she was associated , sometimes very closely , with an ever - widening circle of distinguished people : all of them admired her , many loved her , several made her proposals of marriage . Some of her close ...
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... social paragon that everyone would have predicted , but also the successful author and lecturer , the erudite scholar , and the complex , torn , wise , and often profoundly unhappy woman whom we seek to know . Actually , the dualities ...
... social paragon that everyone would have predicted , but also the successful author and lecturer , the erudite scholar , and the complex , torn , wise , and often profoundly unhappy woman whom we seek to know . Actually , the dualities ...
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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.