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Hobbes (JOHN OLIVER pseudonym of PEARL)

JOHN OLIVER, pseudonym of PEARL MARY TERESA CRAIGIE, an American novelist and dramatist; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 3, 1867. In 1887 she married Reginald Walpole Craigie, from whom she obtained a divorce and the custody of her child, in July, 1895.

She was educated in Paris and London.

Her works include: "Some Emotions and a Moral" (1891); "A Bundle of Life" (1894); "Journeys End in Lovers Meeting," proverb in one act, written for Miss Ellen Terry (1894); "The Gods, Some Mortals, and Lord Wickenham" (1895); "School for Saints" (1897); "Robert Orange" (1900). She died Aug. 3, 1906.