Pearl Richards Craigie (1867-1906) was an English novelist. She employed the pen name John Oliver Hobbes. She was the eldest daughter of John Morgan Richards, a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts. She married Reginald E. Craigie in 1887 but secured a divorce in 1895. Her style is cynical, brilliant, and epigrammatic, especially in dialogue. She wrote the novels:
- Some Emotions and a Moral, (1891)
- A study in Temptations, (1893)
- The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickensham, (1895)
- A Bundle of Life, (1894)
- Robert Orange, (1900)
- The Serious Wooing, (1901)
- Love and the Soul Hunters, (1902)
- The Vineyard, (1904); Flute of Pan, (1905)
- The Dream and the Business, (1906); posthumous,
and the plays
- Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, (1894), for Miss Ellen Terry
- The Ambassador, (1898)
- A Repentance, (1899).
References
- J. M. Richards, Life of John Oliver Hobbes Told in her Correspondence with Numerous Friends, (New York, 1911)
