Thomas Moore

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Standard Name: Moore, Thomas
Used Form: Tom Moore

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death George Gordon sixth Baron Byron
His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...
Dedications Louisa Stuart Costello
She had been working on these translations for some years. This handsome work was (in the words of the old Dictionary of National Biography) enriched with curious illustrations laboriously executed by hand, by...
Education Celia Moss
Little is known of CM 's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky (who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father...
Education Marion Moss
Little is known is about MM 's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky , her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron 's Childe...
Education Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Her father did not allow novels in...
Education Florence Dixie
Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Education Mary Sewell
At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...
Education Stella Gibbons
SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures
qtd. in
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...
Education Augusta Gregory
AG and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'.
McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, 1995, pp. xi - xliv, 525.
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Under her evangelical mother's strict supervision, they were taught by a succession of governesses and tutors, who...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Hervey
Later interest in this sibling relationship has centred on the two novels in which Beckford has been said to have lampooned Hervey's writing—even though critics of his writing have paid these texts comparatively little attention...
Family and Intimate relationships Dinah Mulock Craik
Thomas Mulock was a poet, essayist, and pamphleteer who published throughout his life. As a young man he wrote articles for the Sun which impressed William Jerdan , and he soon also began producing pamphlets...
Family and Intimate relationships Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's paternal, French grandmother, Louise Swanton Belloc , was a children's writer, a translator, intimate friend of Stendhal and Victor Hugo , and the author of a life of Byron (for which Stendhal supplied...
Friends, Associates Olivia Clarke
From early in her life she was (like her sister) a friend of the poet Tom Moore .
Feminist Companion Archive.
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Ham
Among the many officers visiting the Ham family at Ardnaree was Napier , later the author of the History of the Peninsular War. He had little disputes
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
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with EH about politics and religion...
Friends, Associates Louisa Stuart Costello
LSC made many friends in England, notably including the baronet and politician Sir Francis Burdett , his wife Lady Burdett (born Sophia Coutts, member of a famous banking family), and their youngest daughter, who later...

Timeline

1801: Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his...

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1801

Thomas Moore pseudonymously published his mildly erotic Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Tighe, Mary. “Introduction”. Verses Transcribed for H. T., edited by Harriet Kramer Linkin, 2015.
and notes 10-13

23 July 1803: Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a...

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23 July 1803

Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a rising which was designed to seize Dublin Castle and take the Viceroy hostage.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1808-1834: Thomas Moore issued Irish Melodies (full...

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1808-1834

Thomas Moore issued Irish Melodies (full title A Selection of Irish Melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson) in a series of ten numbers.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
White, Terence de Vere. Tom Moore. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
72-3, 77, 80
Strong, L. A. G. The Minstrel Boy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
121, 132, 136

9 September 1811: Thomas Moore's comic opera M. P., or The...

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9 September 1811

Thomas Moore 's comic opera M. P., or The Blue-Stocking premiered at The Theatre Royal, English Opera House .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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By May 1816: William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded,...

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By May 1816

William Hazlitt edited, completed, expanded, and published The Life of Thomas Holcroft, which had been left unfinished when the radical Thomas Holcroft died.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 3 (1816): 434-51
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Hazlitt, William et al. “Introduction”. The Life of Thomas Holcroft, edited by Elbridge Colby, Constable, 1925, p. 1: xv - lv.
xv

By June 1817: Thomas Moore published his hugely successful...

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By June 1817

Thomas Moore published his hugely successful poem Lalla Rookh, An Oriental Romance.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 5 (1817): 562-81
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1824: Irish poet Thomas Moore published a piece...

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1824

Irish poet Thomas Moore published a piece of political fiction: Memoirs of Captain Rock, The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, With Some Account of His Ancestors.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1825: Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life...

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1825

Thomas Moore published Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1828: Thomas Moore published his satirical and...

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1828

Thomas Moore published his satirical and (Irish) nationalist Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96

1833: Thomas Moore published his prose piece Travels...

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1833

Thomas Moore published his prose piece Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion, in two volumes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Texts

Moore, Thomas. Irish Melodies. James Power, 1834, Series of ten parts.
Moore, Thomas. Lalla Rookh. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron. Editor Moore, Thomas, John Murray, 1830, 2 vols.
Moore, Thomas. M.P.; or, The Bluestocking. J. Power, 1811.
Moore, Thomas. Memoirs of Captain Rock. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Brown and Green, 1824.
Moore, Thomas. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Editor Russell, John, first Earl, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853, 8 vols.
Odes of Anacreon. Translator Moore, Thomas, John Stockdale, 1800.
Moore, Thomas. Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
Moore, Thomas. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831, 2 vols.
Moore, Thomas. The Poetical Works of the late Thomas Little, Esq. J. and T. Carpenter, 1801.