CRAIGIE, PEARL MARY TERESA Anglo-American novelist and dramatist, who wrote under the pen name of "JOHN OLIVER HOBBES," was born at Boston, U.S.A., on Nov. 3, 1867, and died in London on Aug. 13, 1906. She was the elder daughter of John Morgan Richards, and in 1887 married Reginald Walpole Craigie, by whom she had one son, John Churchill Craigie; but the marriage proved an unhappy one, and was dissolved on her petition in July 1895. She was brought up as a Nonconformist, but in 1892 was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Her first little book, the brilliant and epigrammatic Some Emotions and a Moral, was published in 1891 in Mr. Fisher Unwin's "Pseudonym Library," and was followed by The Sinner's Comedy (1892), A Study in Temptations (1893), A Bundle of Life (1894), The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham. The Herb Moon (1896), a country love story, was followed by The School for Saints (1897), with a sequel, Robert Orange (Iqoo) . Mrs. Craigie had already written short pieces, when her successful play, The Ambassador, was produced at the St. James's theatre in 1898. She was part author of The Bishop's Move (Garrick theatre, 1902). Among her later works were The Vineyard (1904), and The Dream and the Business (1906).