John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie ( born November 3, 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts, † August 13 1906 in London, England ) was an American- British writer and dramaturge who published under the pseudonym of John Oliver Hobbes.
Life
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie was the eldest daughter of the businessman John Morgan Richards and his wife Laura Hortense, born Arnold. Shortly after her birth the family moved to London, where it was next to further education trained in Paris as well. At the age of 19 she married Reginald Walpole Craigie, with whom she had a son. Since the marriage was unhappy, she was divorced in 1895. In 1892 it was converted from Protestant nonconformity to the Roman Catholic Church. From 1900 she lived in her villa near the estate of their parents in Steephill, Isle of Wight. In 1906 she died suddenly of a heart attack in London when she was on a trip to Scotland.
Craigies first work Some Emotions and a Moral was published in 1891 under the pseudonym of John Oliver Hobbes in Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym Library. In addition to her writing, which included, among other things, A Bundle of Life, Love and the Soul Hunters and Flute of Pan, Hobbes also wrote three plays. In Germany some mortals and Lord Wickenham, The serious Wooing and The Dream and the business three of her works were with The Gods, published in their original language from Leipzig Tauchnitz Verlag.