Pearl Mary Teresa Richards | |
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 Photographed by George Charles Beresford in 1902 | |
| Born | Pearl Mary Teresa Richards November 3, 1867 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | August 13, 1906 (aged 38) London, England |
| Resting place | Kensal Green Cemetery |
| Pen name | John Oliver Hobbes |
| Occupation | Novelist, playwright |
| Spouse | Reginald Walpole Craigie |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | John Morgan Richards (father) |
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Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (November 3, 1867 – August 13, 1906) was an Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen-name of John Oliver Hobbes. Though her work fell out of print in the twentieth century, her first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling eighty thousand copies in only a few weeks.[1]