George Augustus Moore

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

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dickens 's daughter Kate recalled this as her father's favourite among MEB 's novels, and George Moore liked it so much he represented his heroine in A Mummer's Wife (1885) as reading it. It may...
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...
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.
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sacrificed because no one would believe that three literary geniuses could...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
NC 's GM: Memories of George Moore was published with illustrations.
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf.
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Family and Intimate relationships Nancy Cunard
NC 's mother, Maud Alice (Burke) Cunard (Emerald), was born in San Francisco in 1872, to a wealthy father of Irish descent and a half-French mother. She was largely self-taught, and had a...
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.
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but the Hours Press became...
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 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.
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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 ,...
Publishing Violet Fane
Despite fears that he might call her bad names
Fane, Violet. “Concerning Some of the ’Enfants Trouvés’ of Literature”. Nineteenth Century, pp. 126-41.
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or pronounce her to be an awful cook, she finishes with a stab at George Moore for his disparaging comments on women writers. She gives...
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...
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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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.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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Literary responses Michael Field
George Meredith wrote to thank the poets for sending him his much treasured copy.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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I have not recently or for many years, he gushed, read verse that moved me so for the faultless flow...
Friends, Associates Michael Field
They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray.
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(When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

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.