George Augustus Moore

Standard Name: Moore, George Augustus
Used Form: George Moore

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Travel Michael Field
They visited Paul Durand-Ruel 's gallery to marvel at works by Monet , Manet , and Degas . (They also spotted George Moore walking through the gallery.)
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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Textual Production Nancy Cunard
When NC attempted to write autobiography in the autumn of 1956, she felt compelled instead to write sketches of those she had known. The result was her memoirs of important men in her life, including...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
JOH collaborated with George Moore on a number of plays during her career. In 1894 they worked on The Fool's Hour, which appeared in print in the first issue of The Yellow Book (April...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Textual Production Ella Hepworth Dixon
Alfred Gibbons , EHD 's editor at Lady's Pictorial, commissioned her and George Moore to collaborate on a novel, but she was ill and instead went to the Riviera to recuperate. The novel was never written.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
162
Textual Production George Egerton
One year after this The Yellow Book published a portrait of GE by E. A. Walton . Meanwhile the literary contributors to the first issue of the magazine included Henry James , Max Beerbohm ,...
Textual Production John Oliver Hobbes
JOH also collaborated on The Bishop's Move (produced at the Garrick Theatre in June 1902 and published in New York the same year) with Murray Carson , and on an unfinished play called A Time...
Textual Production Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS published another Sussex novel to a scheme suggested by Walter Lionel George , the choice of a woman instead of a man as protagonist: Joanna Godden.
At this point biographer Dorothea Walker attaches...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
These four volumes were billed as a new edition. It bore her name, giving her credit for revising and greatly extending their contents, while the names of Charles Read and T. P. O'Connor remained as...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
Abelard figured in her imagination as her ideal man, and on at least one occasion she dreamed that she herself was Heloise (as an abbess and an elderly woman after Abelard's death).
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
57-8, 220
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Textual Production Viola Meynell
VM published Lot Barrow, a naturalist novel in the tradition of George Moore and Émile Zola .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
153
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
100, 105
Textual Features George Orwell
This is one of the several pieces in which Orwell champions the middlebrow or non-art writing. His supreme example
Orwell, George. The Penguin Essays of George Orwell. Penguin in association with Secker and Warburg.
326
of the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when...
Reception Martin Ross
The formal dinner, with speeches, was attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the twelve Irish women writers, and two hundred guests. Next day Somerville and Ross saw their photographs in the Irish Times and...
Reception Anne Brontë
AB 's work has from the outset been overshadowed by that of Emily and Charlotte. George Moore called her a literary Cinderella,
Langland, Elizabeth. Anne Brontë: The Other One. Barnes and Noble.
29
sacrificed because no one would believe that three literary geniuses could...
Publishing John Oliver Hobbes
JOH and Moore later quarrelled over contracts relating to their collaborations. Maison mentions one such argument in 1905, and Hobbes refers to an extraordinary scene
Maison, Margaret. John Oliver Hobbes. Eighteen Nineties Society.
64
between her and Moore at Unwin's offices the following...

Timeline

1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...

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1878

William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald Allen formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen , at 15 Paternoster Square, London.

1883: George Moore, already a disciple of Zola,...

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1883

George Moore , already a disciple of Zola , published his first, semi-autobiographicalnovel, A Modern Lover, in realist style.

By early November 1884: George Moore issued his second realist novel,...

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By early November 1884

George Moore issued his second realistnovel, A Mummer's Wife, through Henry Vizetelly after several rejections.

1885: Vizetelly published George Moore's Literature...

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1885

Vizetelly published George Moore 's Literature at Nurse; or Circulating Morals, followed up Moore's earlier attack on the censorship exercised by circulating libraries.

March 1894: George Moore published Esther Waters, a novel...

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March 1894

George Moore published Esther Waters, a novel whose eponymous heroine is a servant and a struggling single mother.

31 May 1898: George Bedborough, secretary of the Legitimation...

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31 May 1898

George Bedborough , secretary of the Legitimation League which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.

Texts

Moore, George Augustus. Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933. Editor Hart-Davis, Rupert, R. Hart-Davis, 1957.