![]() ![]() They lived in Rome with Crawford's mother and had four children. In 1884 he travelled to Constantinople, where in the French Catholic church of Pera he married Elizabeth Christophers Berdan, daughter of General Hiram Berdan. (1885) Amid rumours and scandal Crawford had also became friends with Boston socialite, art patron and museum founder Isabella Stewart Gardner. ![]() Books to follow were Doctor Claudius, (1883) To Leeward, (1883) A Roman Singer, (1884) and An American Politician: A Novel. Jacob whom Crawford had met while editing a newspaper in Simla, India. It is based on his experiences in India including meeting his friend Alexander M. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India (1882) was an instant success. When he travelled to India, there until 1880, he converted to Roman Catholicism.Ĭrawford was back across the Atlantic in 1881 landing in Boston to seek literary employment and possibly a career in politics though he knew little about American politics. ![]() ![]() He was an extraordinary linguist of twenty languages including studying Sanskrit at the University of Rome. 1869 he returned to Rome then went on to travel throughout Italy, England and Germany. Crawford's early schooling was from private tutors. Crawford's father died when he was just three years old and his mother Louisa remarried Luther Terry, an American painter. ![]()
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