Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Background

Mary Teresa Craigie was born at Boston, U. S. A. , on the 3rd of November 1867. She was the elder daughter of John Morgan Richards.

Education

Mary Teresa Craigie was ducated in London and Paris.

Career

Mary Teresa Craigie was brought up as a Nonconformist, but in 1892 was received into the Roman Catholic Church, of which she remained a devout and serious member. 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).

Achievements

• Craigie's first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling eighty-thousand copies in only a few weeks.

Works

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  • Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange

    (Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Ro...)

  • Imperial India: Letters from the East

    (Imperial India. Letters from the East, by John Oliver Hob...)

  • The Sinner's Comedy
  • The School for Saints (Classic Reprint)

Connections

When Craigie was nineteen she 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.

Spouse:

Reginald Walpole Craigie

Son:

John Churchill Craigie