Quotes:Crawford, Francis Marion

Zirkoff, Boris

Crawford, Francis Marion. American author, b. at Bagni di Lucca, Italy, Aug. 2, 1854; d. at Sorrento, April 9, 1909. Son of the American sculptor, Thomas Crawford. Educated at St. Paul’s school, Concord, N. H., Trinity College, Cambridge, Heidelberg and Rome. Went to India, 1879, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allâhâbâd Indian Herald. Returning to America, continued his studies at Harvard and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr. Isaacs, a brilliant sketch of Anglo-Indian life mingled with Oriental mystery, and which had an immediate success. After further travels, he made in 1883 his permanent home in Italy, where he wrote a large number of novels and historical works with imaginative vividness and accuracy.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 640

Crawford, F. Marion (1854-1909). Mr. Isaacs, a Tale of Modern India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. 8vo. 316 pp.—Zoroaster. London: ibid., 1885. 8vo.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 434

Crawford F. Marion (1854-1909). *Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1882.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 10, p. 416