George Augustus Moore

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...

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...

Through her brother James, she moved in intellectual circles that included George Moore and Oscar Wilde .

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...

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.)

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.

George Meredith wrote to thank the poets for sending him his much treasured copy.I have not recently or for many years, he gushed, read verse that moved me so for the faultless flow...

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

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...

Despite fears that he might call her bad names 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...

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 ,...

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.

NC 's GM: Memories of George Moore was published with illustrations.

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...

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, but the Hours Press became...