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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... talk with him about his mother , and entrusted it to a Sotheby's employee for forwarding . On Monday he telephoned , his beautifully modulated English voice happily tremulous . He apologized for not coming to London to see me " straight ...
... talk with him about his mother , and entrusted it to a Sotheby's employee for forwarding . On Monday he telephoned , his beautifully modulated English voice happily tremulous . He apologized for not coming to London to see me " straight ...
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... Talking of Books " section of the London Times ( December 1966 ) ; Vineta Colby in " The Wrong Paradise , " a section of her book The Singular Anomaly : Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century ( 1970 ) ; Margaret Maison , first in ...
... Talking of Books " section of the London Times ( December 1966 ) ; Vineta Colby in " The Wrong Paradise , " a section of her book The Singular Anomaly : Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century ( 1970 ) ; Margaret Maison , first in ...
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... talk with you . " At the foot of the stairs a small , most unformidable lady with warm brown eyes and a friendly smile joined us , and when her husband explained how he and I had met , she was as astonished and amused as we were . They ...
... talk with you . " At the foot of the stairs a small , most unformidable lady with warm brown eyes and a friendly smile joined us , and when her husband explained how he and I had met , she was as astonished and amused as we were . They ...
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... talk and songs . In 1860 ( at nineteen ) , John became manager of a branch of the agricultural business in Boston , and there he met Laura Arnold . A year and a half later , after she had made a round of visits to members of his family ...
... talk and songs . In 1860 ( at nineteen ) , John became manager of a branch of the agricultural business in Boston , and there he met Laura Arnold . A year and a half later , after she had made a round of visits to members of his family ...
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... talk , games , piano music , and singing , with Pearl and her brothers in the midst of it all . And both parents continued to involve themselves in the lives of their children . From her toddling days , Richards apparently never tired ...
... talk , games , piano music , and singing , with Pearl and her brothers in the midst of it all . And both parents continued to involve themselves in the lives of their children . From her toddling days , Richards apparently never tired ...
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1892 | 66 |
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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.