Robert Orange is a novel by John Oliver Hobbes — the pen name of Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie — a prominent and critically admired fin-de-siècle British author. The novel is a continuation of an earlier work and follows its idealistic protagonist through the entanglements of Victorian political life, religious conversion, and social duty. Craigie was known for her epigrammatic wit and her sophisticated treatment of moral and spiritual themes.
Today largely overlooked, her fiction offers a rewarding portrait of the intellectual and social world of late Victorian Britain. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg to discover a writer who deserves wider rediscovery.