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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... Society , London ) are probably not widely known , especially in America ; Colby's otherwise admirable discussion is biased by its author's dislike of Pearl Craigie ; and Weintraub's lively treatment , focused entirely on the woman ...
... Society , London ) are probably not widely known , especially in America ; Colby's otherwise admirable discussion is biased by its author's dislike of Pearl Craigie ; and Weintraub's lively treatment , focused entirely on the woman ...
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... Society of Philadelphia ( an anonymous society devoted to helping " worthy women of slender means " ) donated to me quarterly , for two years , small sums with which I could pay a typist . David Holmes , dealer in rare books ...
... Society of Philadelphia ( an anonymous society devoted to helping " worthy women of slender means " ) donated to me quarterly , for two years , small sums with which I could pay a typist . David Holmes , dealer in rare books ...
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... Society , 1976 ) ; Simon and Schuster , for quotations from Ralph G. Martin's Jennie : The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J .: Prentice Hall , vol . 1 , 1969 ; vol . 2 , 1971 ) ; Nigel Nicolson and Harper Collins ...
... Society , 1976 ) ; Simon and Schuster , for quotations from Ralph G. Martin's Jennie : The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J .: Prentice Hall , vol . 1 , 1969 ; vol . 2 , 1971 ) ; Nigel Nicolson and Harper Collins ...
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... society , literature , journalism , the theater , music , religion , adult education , and philanthropy ; she was passionately interested in many other areas — painting , philosophy , history , politics , the new psychology , and the ...
... society , literature , journalism , the theater , music , religion , adult education , and philanthropy ; she was passionately interested in many other areas — painting , philosophy , history , politics , the new psychology , and the ...
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... society that stifled and embittered many women , and in domestic circumstances that would have crushed and soured a lesser woman , Pearl Craigie as honest and courageous as she was brilliant had come , even by age thirty - eight , a ...
... society that stifled and embittered many women , and in domestic circumstances that would have crushed and soured a lesser woman , Pearl Craigie as honest and courageous as she was brilliant had come , even by age thirty - eight , a ...
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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.