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George Augustus Moore
Standard Name: Moore, George Augustus
Used Form: George Moore
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Julia Frankau | Through her brother James, she moved in intellectual circles that included George Moore
and Oscar Wilde
. |
Friends, Associates | Julia Frankau | Literary figures regularly seen at JF
's afternoon salons included George Moore
, Max Beerbohm
, Arnold Bennett
, Somerset Maugham
, Sir William Nicholson
, and Sir Henry Irving
. It was at one... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vita Sackville-West | She had been working on it, and reading it aloud to her husband, by the end of 1917. George Moore
, too, read it before publication and suggested the incorporation of a real-life incident which... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | AG
chose to focus on Grania—a controversial figure in Irish legend who leaves her intended husband for a lover but then returns to him—because of her strength of character. As she explains,I think I... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | By now she had contributed parodies of Max Beerbohm
, George Moore
, and others. Burkhart, Charles. Ada Leverson. Twayne, 1973. 24 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad
and Emily Brontë
.Again VSW
's mother
weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband
envisaged for her... |
Literary responses | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
bridges the gap between the Victorians and the moderns. Leslie Stephen found her irritating, and harshly criticized her Dictionary of National Biography entry on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, but noted that everyone who could... |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This was the favourite novel of SKS
herself, and of critics Margaret MacKenzie
and George Moore
. On 25 July 1928 Moore inscribed to Kaye-Smith a copy of his Memoirs of my Dead Life... |
Literary responses | Margaret Kennedy | The novel's initial favourable reviews came from an earlier generation of authors, including George Moore
, A. E. Housman
, Thomas Hardy
, Arnold Bennett
, J. M. Barrie
, and H. G. Wells
... |
Literary responses | Michael Field | Speaking to the authors in 1890, George Moore
expressed his appreciation for William Rufus. By Jove, it's fine, he reportedly said, Ma foi, it's good. qtd. in Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 134 |
Literary responses | Michael Field | George Meredith
wrote to thank the poets for sending him his much treasured copy. qtd. in Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 67 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | By the time of her death, MEB
's novels had received praise from many great writers of her day, including George Moore
, Arnold Bennett
, Robert Louis Stevenson
and Thomas Hardy
. Her astonishingly... |
Occupation | Nancy Cunard | Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink, Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company, 1968. 69 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | This was when she was to play Aleil. In Ave, George Moore
satirised the rehearsal process, revealing the actors' frustration about FF
's inability to remember her own stage directions and her penchant for... |
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