![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His family was concerned about his financial prospects. ĭuring this period he lived most of the time in Boston at his aunt Julia Ward Howe's house and in the company of his uncle, Sam Ward. Early in 1882, he established his lifelong close friendship with Isabella Stewart Gardner. Returning to America in February 1881, he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year and for two years contributed to various periodicals, mainly The Critic. In 1879, he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited in Allahabad The Indian Herald. ![]() He studied successively at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire Cambridge University University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. After his father's death in 1857, his mother remarried to Luther Terry, with whom she had Crawford's half-sister, Margaret Ward Terry, who later became the wife of Winthrop Astor Chanler. Hugh Fraser), and he was the nephew of Julia Ward Howe, the American poet. His sister was the writer Mary Crawford Fraser ( aka Mrs. He was the only son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward. Francis Marion Crawford (Aug– April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastical stories.Ĭrawford was born in Bagni di Lucca, in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, on August 2, 1854. ![]()
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