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George Augustus Moore
Standard Name: Moore, George Augustus
Used Form: George Moore
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Occupation | Augusta Gregory | A plan for a theatre began to emerge, with the stated mission of show[ing] that Ireland is not the home of buffonery and of easy sentiment, as it has been represented, but the home of... |
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... |
Fictionalization | Héloïse | |
Publishing | John Oliver Hobbes | |
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... |
Fictionalization | John Oliver Hobbes | JOH
found herself the subject of a more personal response in works by George Moore
. Mildred Lawson in Celibates (1895), whose obnoxious heroine was modelled on Moore's reading of his relationship with Hobbes, was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Oliver Hobbes | One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore
. The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break... |
death | John Oliver Hobbes | She had left her parents' home on the Isle of Wight the day before, having spent three energetic days there, and her father later wrote that on leaving she gave no indication of illness or... |
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... |
Performance of text | John Oliver Hobbes | In the same year JOH
and Moore
also collaborated on the one-act comedy Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting (titled from Shakespeare
), which was performed in June 1895 (according to her father's memoir) Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 23 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
made early friendships with the novelists G. B. Stern
and Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 79 Stern writes W. L. George. Kaye-Smith's biographer Dorothea Walker
observes that she used the nickname Willy George for... |
Friends, Associates | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
was an intimate friend for some forty years of novelist Gladys Stern
(known as Peter), with whom she jointly authored several books. Stern said Kaye-Smith's close friends were those with tremendous vitality, capable... |
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