Life
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the eldest daughter of the businessman John Morgan Richards and his wife Laura Hortense (née Arnold). The family moved to London soon after her birth, and she was educated in London and Paris. When she 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. She 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.
From 1900, Mrs Craigie lived and worked at her villa near her parents' home at Steephill, Isle of Wight. The villa is now called Craigie Lodge and bears a small commemorative plaque memorializing Mrs Craigie's time there. In 1906, she died suddenly of heart failure in London en route to a holiday in Scotland.
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