Robert Orange

Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange

Reading time: about 7 h
Length: 95,554 words · 174 pages
Structure: 30 chapters
Language: English
Era: Victorian

Lady Sara de Treverell, daughter of the Earl of Garrow, is riding through London with her father when she brings up Robert Orange — a rising young man of murky, rumored French-émigré ancestry — and suggests they have him to dinner. Her father is wary of Orange and set on marrying Sara to the wealthy Duke of Marshire, but as the novel opens in October 1869, her thoughts keep returning to Orange instead.

John Oliver Hobbes — the pen name of Pearl Craigie — published Robert Orange in 1900, a sequel to her 1897 novel The School for Saints.

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Religious fiction

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John Oliver Hobbes

1867–1906 · Victorian

John Oliver Hobbes was the pen name of Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867–1906), born in Boston and brought to England as a child. Her first novel, Some Emotions and a Moral (1891), written soon after a brief, unhappy marriage ended in divorce, sold some eighty thousand copies within weeks and made her a literary sensation under her pseudonym. She went on to write further novels — including The School for Saints (1897) and its sequel Robert Orange (1900) — as well as plays produced in London's West End, and was a prominent figure in literary and society circles, close to George Moore, George Meredith and Henry James among others. She died in London at thirty-eight.

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