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She was the elder daughter of John Morgan Richards, and was educated in , 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 Sinners 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 Schoolfor Saints'' (1897), with a sequel, ''Robert Orange'' (1900). Mrs Craigie had already written a one-act proverb, ''Journeys esui in Lovers Meeting'', produced by Ellen Terry in 1894, and a three-act tragedy, ''Osbern and Ursyne'', printed in the ''Anglo-Saxon Review'' (1899), when her successful piece, ''The Ambassador'', was oroduced at the St James's Theatre in 1808. ''A Repentance'' (one act, 1899) and ''The Wisdom of the Wise'' (1900) were produced at the same theatre, and ''The Flute of Pan'' (1904) first at Manchester and then at the Shaftesbury Theatre ; she was also part author of ''The Bishops Move'' ( Garrick Theatre , 1902). Later books are ''The Serious Wooing'' (1901), ''Love and the Soul Hunters'' (1902), ''Tales about Temperament'' (1902), ''The Vineyard'' (1904). Mrs Craigie died suddenly of heart failure in London on the 13th of August 1906. |
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