George Moore
(1852-1933)
Life |
[George Augustus Moore; prob. Anglo-Norman
descent; gaelicised as Ó Mórdha]; b. 24 Feb. 1852,
Moore Hall [built 1795; motto - fortis cadere cedere non
potest], Carnacun [Ballyglass], nr. Claremorris, Co. Mayo, eldest
son of George Henry Moore (d.1870; q.v.), and member of a family that
turned Catholic during the Penal Days; grandson of George Moore,
briefly President of the Republic of Ireland during the French invasion
of 1798 and gt-grandson of George Moore of Ashbrook, the builder
of Moore Hall, who made a fortune in Alicante where he owned ships
and took the oath of allegiance to George III; held 12,330 acres
of land in freehold lease; the novelist was ed. Oscott College,
nr. Birmingham, and sent away for special tuition; moves to London
when his father regained a seat at Westminster; attends drawing
and painting classes; inherits 12,500 acres at age of 18, with anticipated
rents of £5,000; leaves for Paris to paint, 1873; attends École
des Beaux Arts, then Académie Julian; turns to writing, studying
Balzac; excited by Gautiers eroticism and stylistic virtuosity;
among the first to appreciate Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Laforgue, he
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writes Martin Luther, verse play, with
Bernard Lopez; meets Manet, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, and other Impressionists,
as well as Zola at Nouvelles Athenes café in Montmartre;
moves to England, late 1879; issues Flowers of Passion (1878)
and Pagan Poems (1881), verse collections; issues Modern
Lover (1883), his first novel, to be followed by A Mummers
Wife (1885), dealing with marriage, seduction, child-birth and
child-death, separation, drunkenness, and lonely death of Kate Ede,
issued by Vizetelly, Zolas English publisher; issues Literature
at Nurse (1885), pamphlet condemning three-vol. novels and circulating
libraries; issues A Drama in Muslin (1886), published serially
and banned by circulating libraries, leading Moore to threaten publication
in French in future (The Times, 12 Aug. 1886), and later
reissued by him as Muslin (1915), omitting chiefly the section
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forms friendships with Olive Schreiner, Eleanor
Marx, and Vernon Lee, all independent women; makes annual
visits to Moore Hall; maintains contacts with French writers and
painters, writing on Impressionist painters; settles in Sussex;
contrib. Lettres sur l'Irlande to Figaro (31 July; 7,
14, 21, 28 Aug.; 4 Sept. 1886), revised and published with additions
in M. F. Rabbe, trans., Terre dIrlande (1887), and
finally issued as Parnell and His Island (1887), outraging
nationalist opinion with its dismissive view of Ireland as a land
of priests and philistines; issues Confessions of a Young Man
(1888), in which he declares his relief at the death of father as
giving him the power to create myself and strikes the
pose of an aesthete; issues Impressions and Opinions (1889);
attempts to run a rabbit farm in Ireland; moves to London; issues
A Mere Accident (1887) and Spring Days (1888), novels;
issues Mike Fletcher (1889) and Vain Fortune (1891),
both unsuccessful, and both featuring his cousin Edward Martyn as
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takes rooms in the Temple [London]; writes
articles on literature and art for a papers and magazines, incl.
that on Antoine's production of Ghosts at the Théâtre
libre in Paris, 1890; becomes a founding member of W. J. Greins
Indepentent Theatre (1891-98); issues Modern Painting (1893);
Stein produces his play The Strike at Arlingford (Independent
Theatre, 1893), which did not succeed; embarks on an affair with
the novelist Pearl Craigie [pseud. John Oliver Hobbes],
with whom he shares enthusiasm for Wagner, 1893 onwards; issues
Esther Waters (1894) and establishes his reputation as a
Zolaesque novelist; is introduced to the ideals of Irish Literary
Revival by Martyn, 1894; issues Celibates (1895), a short
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writes preface for Martyns The Heather
Field (1898); issues Evelyn Innes (1898), in which the
title character, a Wagnerian singer and a Catholic - thought to
be a malicious portrait of Craigie - is seduced by Sir Owen Asher
and later by the poet Ulick Dean, based on Yeats, before coming
under the influence of Monsignor Mostyn, a priest who persuades
her to enter a convent; meets Maud Burke (later Lady Cunard), with
whom he has an affair occasioning the belief that he may have
been Nancys Cunards mother; forms friendships with Henry
Tonks and Wilson Steer, Arthur Symons, Sir William Eden; introduced
to W. B. Yeats by Martyn in 1897; leaves England for Ireland in
reaction to English jingoism during the Boer War (no whispering
but a resolute voice, saying, Go back to Ireland,
acc. Hail and Farewell); settles at 4 [var. 3, Smiths
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assists Martyn with The Tale of a Town,
later rewritten as The Bending of the Bough (1900), dealing
with events and characters associated with the Irish Parliamentary
Party - a play in which Kirwan may be identified with Standish OGrady
while holding ideas similar to those of George Russell (as noted
by Yeats); collaborates with Yeats in writing Diarmuid and Grania
in 1900, from Lady Gregorys translation of the Irish myth,
to be produced by F[rank] R. Bensons Shakespearean Company,
along with Hydes Casadh an tSugain, Oct. 1901); wrote
at first for The Leader but parted with it when its editor
D. P. Moran attacked both the plays, concluding with The Thoughtlessness
of the Critic (19 Nov. 1901); contributes Literature
and the Irish Language to Ideals in Ireland (ed. Lady
Gregory, 1901), giving it as his view that the language of
English fiction has … run stagnant; issues Sister
Teresa (1901); |
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keeps Yeats out of the theatre during unsatisfactory
rehearsals of The Countess Cathleen with the English company
[Benson], 1902; writes the stories of The Untilled Field
(1903), conceived as a landmark in Anglo-Irish literature
by himself and offered as models for Irish-language writers; contribs.
The Wedding Gown, Almsgiving, and The
Clerks Quest to New Ireland Review (ed. Fr. Tom
Finlay) - to be translated as An Gúna Phósta;
An Déirc, and Tóir Mhic Uí
Dhíomasaigh [by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha]; forced
to discontinued publication of the stories due to increasing their
anti-clericism; the whole translated by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha
and Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin as An-tÚr-Ghort
(1902) and published by the Gaelic League with a parallel text;
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splits finally with Yeats over authorship of
Where There is Nothing (1902) - written in a fortnight to
keep George Moore from stealing the plot, acc. Yeats; declares
himself a Protestant in The Irish Times, 1903; his Moods
and Memories a sect. of Memoirs of My Dead Life (1908),
appears in Dana, 1-6 (1904); wrote letter to The Irish
Times on Mr. Synges New Play [citing barbarous
idiom and great literary achievement], 27 Feb.
1904; also contribs. his preface to Confessions of a Young Man
to Dana (No.7); delivers swingeing lecture on The Meaning
of Manet for Ireland, Royal Hibernian Academy [RHA], 8 Dec.
1904; refuses to shake hands with Yeats on meeting him at Arthur
Symons House, 1904; appointed High Sherriff of Mayo in 1905; issues
The Lake (1905), concerning Fr. Gogartys dissatisfaction
with the unspiritual attitudes of his fellow-clergy and his eventual
acknowledgement of the truth of Rose Leicesters [rev. to Nora
Glynn in 1921 Edn.] liberal and humanist position, communicated
to him in letters from abroad after her dismissal from his parish
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leaves Dublin, March 1911, and settles at 121
Ebury Street (Chelsea), London, 1911; issues Ave (1911),
Salve (1912), and Vale (1914), volumes of autobiography
issued together as Hail and Farewell (1925), which supplies
caricatures of literary contemporaries in Dublin in the vein of
high comedy, causing Moore to say: One half of Dublin is afraid
it will be in the book, and the other his afraid that it wont;
records much agonising about his own role in the revival and the
failings of the Catholic Church in Ireland; Moore travels to Jerusalem,
1913; publishes part of Vale in the English Review
(Jan. & Feb. 1914), incl. allegations that Lady Gregory had
been a religious proselytiser [souper] in early days,
and an insolent account of Yeats; issues The Brook Kerith
(1916), imagining that Jesus did not die, but live on in a pre-Raphaelite
Palestine [W.J. McCormack]; writes a tirade against Ireland when asked
to supply Joyce with a Civil List commendation, Aug. 1917; issues
A Story-tellers Holiday (1918) for Irish Folklore Soc.
and incl. Marban, narrating the Celtic abbots
acquiescence in the principal of romantic love and based on a misreading
of the poem by Mael Isu Ó Brolchan (The Priest recovereth
his Psalmbook); issues Avowals (1919), conversational
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issues Heloïse and Abélard
(1921), a novel on the famous medieval theme; issues In Single
Strictness (1922), five stories, and Conversations in Ebury
Street (1924), another memoir; Moore Hall is burnt down by Republicans,
Feb. 1923; receives compensation of £7,000 from the Free State Govt.;
edits Pure Poetry (1924); persuades Nancy Cunard to turn
before him naked, acc. her memoir; becomes a fnd. member of Irish
Academy of Letters and Medals (MIAL), 1926; trans. novel by Long[in]us
as The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (1930); issues
Aphrodite in Aulis (1930); becomes ill with uraemia; d. 21
Jan. 1933, at 121 Ebury St., Pimlico; a tribute is written by AE
at the request of Col. Maurice Moore and is spoken at the funeral
by R. I. Best; his ashes buried on Castle Island in Lough Carra,
across the lake from Moore Hall; A Communication to my Friends
(1933), an autobiographical volume, appears posthumously; the Ebury
Edition of his works published by Heinemann in 20 vols. (1937);
his papers are held in the National Library of Ireland; a George
Moore Symposium was conducted under the auspices of the Princess
Grace Irish Library (Monaco), and directed by Mary Pierce, over
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[For information on the Joyce Connection - see under Notes - as infra and Commentary - as infra. ] |
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George Moore by J. B. Yeats |
Photo-port. c.1888 |
[ There is a George Moore Association - online;
accessed 10.08.2020. ]
Works
197 copies of works by George Moore at Internet Archive
- online |
18 copies of works by George Moore at Gutenberg Project
- online. |
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Poetry |
- Flowers of Passion (1878);
- Pagan Poems (1881) [undated in DIL, sole source];
- ed. Pure Poetry: An Anthology (1924; US Edn. 1925).
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Drama
- Worldliness [1874]; with Lopez, Martin Luther
(1879);
- The Strike at Arlingford (London: Walter Scott Ltd. 1893);
- The Bending of the Bough, pref. by George Moore (London:
T. Fisher Unwin/NY: Herbert S. Stone & Co 1900), xx, 153pp.
[being E. Martyns Tale of the Town rewritten by Moore],
and Do. [rep. edn.; Irish Drama Ser., Vol. 3.] (Chicago:
De Paul UP 1969), 87pp.;
- The Apostle (1911; rewritten, 1923, and rev. as The
Passing of the Essenes, 1930);
- Esther Waters (1913) [as a play];
- Elizabeth Cooper: A Comedy in Three Acts (Dublin: Maunsel
1913), later rewritten as The Coming of Gabrielle: A Comedy
(1920);
- The Making of an Immortal, A Play in One Act (1927) [1st
US edn. NY 1928, 1240 signed copies];
- Diarmuid and Grania, with W. B. Yeats (produced 1901;
published 1951).
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Fiction (novels)
- A Modern Lover (London: Tinsley Bros. 1883), banned in
England, and later rewritten as Lewis Seymour and Some Women,
1917);
- A Mummers Wife (London: Vizetelly & Co. 1885;
Heinemann 1933);
- A Drama in Muslin (London: Vizetelly & Co. 1887),
rewritten as Muslin, 1915; Do. [another edn.] (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 1981), and Do. [another edn.], as Drama
in Muslin, introduced by James Plunkett [Appletree Classic
Irish Novels] (Belfast: Appletree Press 1992);
- A Mere Accident (London: Vizetelly 1887) [later abbrev.
as John Norton for Celibates, 1895];
- Spring Days (London: Vizetelly 1888) [Gil. A13];
- Mike Fletcher (London: Ward & Downey 1889) [Gil.
A14a];
- Vain Fortune (1891; London: Ward & Downey 1895);
- Esther Waters (London: Walter Scott 1894) [Booker Prize,
1894]; Do. (NY: Everymans Library 1936), and Do.,
ed. David Skilton [Worlds Classics] (OUP q.d.), 424pp.;
Do. [another edn.] ed. Stephen Regan [Oxford Worlds
Classics ] (OUP 2012), 384pp.
- Evelyn Innes (NY: D. Appleton 1898);
- Sister Teresa (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1901), authors
port.; and Do., Colonial edn., viii+236pp.;
- The Lake (London: William Heinemann 1905; NY: D. Appleton
1906) [ded. Édouard Dujardin], and Do., with an
afterword by Richard Allen Cave (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe
1980) [infra];
- The Brook Kerith (London: T. Werner Laurie; NY: Macmillan
1916); Do. as A Syrian Story [heavily revised
with a new preface] (1921) [ltd. edn. 500]; Do. (London:
Heinemann 1933); Do. (NY: Macmillan 1956);
- Fragments from Héloïse and Abélard
[priv. printed] (NY 1921) [ltd. edn. 1,500; var. 250 (Sothebys],
Vol. ii, 3-23pp., and Do. (London: Macmillan 1936);
- The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe (1924) [ltd.
edn. 1280], and Do. [Ebury Edn] (London: Heinemann 1936);
- Ulick and Soracha (1926) [ltd. edn. 1250];
- Aphroditis in Aulis (1930) [ltd. edn. 1825], and Do.
(London: Heinemann 1931).
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Find numerous copies of Moores works at Internet
Archive - online;
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Short fiction
- Celibates: Three Tales [Colonial Edn.] (London: Walter
Scott 1895), 559pp. [printed by T. & A. Constable in Edinburgh],
and Do. [rev.] (Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1895), 336pp. [Mildred
Lawson; John Norton; Agnes Lahens];*
- Prelozil Jos. Bartos, trans., Mildred Lawsonová jiné
povídky (Anglická knihovna 1899), 387pp. [stories
from The Celibates” and The Untilled Field];
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- In Single Strictness (London: Heinemann 1922), vii. 311pp.
[ltd. edn. 1030], and Do. reiss. as Celibate Lives
(London: Heinemann; NY: Boni & Liveright 1927), ix, 200pp.,
and Do. (Leipzig: Tauchnitz 1927), 278pp. [copyright edn.]
[Wilfrid Holmes; Priscilla and Emily Lofft;
Albert Nobbs; Henrietta Marr; Sarah
Gwynn];
- An tÚr Ghort (Dublin: Conradh na Gaelige 1902),
in English as The Untilled Field (1903) - as infra.
- The Untilled Field (London: T.
Fisher Unwin 1903) (viii), 420pp. [see details];
Do. (NY/Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1903);
rep. edn., [Gills Irish Classics] (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan
1990), 238pp; Do., with an introduction by T.R. Henn (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 1976), xxv, 348pp. [see details],
and Do. [another edn.], foreword by Robert Welch (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 2000), 225pp. - and see also story synposes
under Notes, infra;
- A Story-Tellers Holiday (1918) [limited to 1000
signed copies; incl. Ulick and Soracha, &c.].
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See also David B. Eakin & Helmut E. Gerber, In
Minor Keys: The Uncollected Short Stories of George Moore
[1882-1927] (Syracuse UP 1985), 229pp.
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*Mildred Lawson based in part on An Art Student
(in Today, Spring 1895); John Norton (rev.
& abridged from A Mere Accident] Note also adaptation
as Simon Behussa, The Singular Life of Alfred Nobbs [q.d.].
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Correspondence
- John Eglinton, ed. and sel., Letters from George Moore to
Eduard Dujardin 1886-1922 (NY 1929);
- Elginton, intro., Letters of George Moore to John Eglinton
(Bournemouth: Sydenham 1942);
- Rupert Hart-Davies, ed., George Moore: Letters ot Lady Cunard
1895-1933 (London 1957) [208pp.]; also Letters to Edmund
Gosse, W. B. Yeats, R. I. Best, Nancy Cunard and Mary Hutchinson
(Maryland thesis, 1958);
- Helmut E. Gerber, ed., George Moore in Transition: Letters
to T. Fisher Unwin and Lena Milman 1894-1910 (Detroit: Wayne
State UP 1968);
- Seamus Mac Donncha, Letters [of] George Moore to his Brother,
Col. Maurice Moore (NUI Galway thesis 1972-73);
- Helmet E. Gerber, ed. [asst. by O. M. Brack], George Moore
on Parnassus: Letters 1900-1933 [to secretaries, publishers,
printers, agents, literati, friends, and acquaintances] (Delaware
UP 1988), 896pp. [continuing].
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See also Moore versus Harris: An intimate
correspondence between George Moore and Frank Harris relating
to the Brook Kerith, Heloise and Abelard, astonishing criticism
of George Bernard Shaw, Moore's rejection of Oscar Wilde as an
artist, important and amazing statements about other contemporary
men of letters, disclosing the true valuation George Moore places
on his own personality and books. Including facsimile reproductions
of letters and auction records of some of the letters printed
herein, also caricatures by Max Beerbohm and by the late Claude
Lovat Fraser (Detroit [s.n.] 1921), 28pp. [available at Internet
Archive - online].
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Coll. Editions
The Carra Edition, 21 vols. (NY: Boni & Liveright
1922-24), with two more vols. (1925-26); Heinemann Uniform Edn.
(1924-33), reissued as Ebury Library (1937).
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Collected Works of George Moore
[Printed for subscribers only (NY: Boni and Liveright 1922)
- Contents: Vol. 1. Lewis Seymour and some women; Vol. 2.
A mummer's wife; Vol. 3. Muslin; Vol. 4. Spring days; Vol.
5. Esther Waters; Vol. 6. Evelyn Innes; Vol. 7. Sister Teresa;
Vol. 8. The untilled field & the lake; Vol. 9. Confessions
of a young man: avowals; Vol. 10. Memoirs of my dead life;
Vol. 11. Hail and farewell, Ave; Vol. 12. Hail and farewell,
Salve; Vol. 13. Hail and farewell, Vale; Vol. 14. A story-teller's
holiday; Vol. 15-16. Héloïse and Abélard;
Vol. 17. The Brook Kerith; Vol. 18. In single strictness;
Vol. 19. Modern painting; Vol. 20. Conversations in Ebury
Street. (Details available at Internet Archive - online.] |
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Bibliographical details
An t-úr-Ghort
[being The Untilled Field in Irish] sgéaltha le Seórsa
Ó Mórdha, aistrighthe ón Sacsbhéarla
ag Pádraig Ó Súilleabhain, B.A. (Baile-an-atha-Cliath;
Sealy Bryers & Walker [1902]. [See title page photo in Peter Costello,
The Heart Grown Brutal: The Irish Revolution in Literature, Gill
& Macmillan 1977, pl.8.]
The Untilled Field by
George Moore (London: William Heinemann 1903; new edn. Oct. 1914;
new imp. Jan 1915), Preface, v-xi; CONTENTS, In the Clay [1]; The
Exile [32]; Home Sickness [50]; Some Parishioners [68]; Patchwork
[86]; The Wedding Feast [102]; The Window [131]; A Letter to Rome[150];
A Play-House in the Waste [165]; Julia Cahills Curse [173];
The Wedding Gown [187]; The Clerks Quest [194]; Almsgiving [201];
So on He Fares [217]; The Wild Goose [?-316; End]. [For summaries,
see Notes, infra.]
The Lake (London:
William Heinemann 1905; NY: D. Appleton 1906) [ded. Edouard Dujardin];
Do. [rep. edn.], with an afterword by Richard Allen Cave (Gerrards
Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), 274pp. Contents: Epître dédicatoire
(1905) [vii]; Preface to the New Edition of 1921 [ix]; The Lake [1];
Afterword [181]; Appendices [241]: A. Chapter IX of the first edition
of 1905; B. Gogartys dinner party, from the second 1905 edition
[257]; C. King and Hermit and Monk and His Pet [Cat]
translated by Kuno Meyer [269].
Hail
and Farewell (1911-13) - at Internet Archive |
- Ave (London: Heinemann 1911 - online;
- Salve (London: Heinemann 1912), 397pp. - online;
- Vale (London: Heinemann 1914), 365pp. - online.
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Ave (London: Heinemann
[NY: Appleton] 1911), 367pp. - and Do. rep. edition 1914; rev.
& rep. 1919; rep. 1921, 1927; Uniform Edn. 1933; Ebury Edn. 1937;
rep. 1947).
Selected Plays of George Moore and Edward Martyn,
ed. by David B. Eaken & Michael Case [Irish Dramatic Selections]
(Washington: Catholic UP 1996), 362pp., incls. Moore, The Strike
at Arlingford; The Bending of the Bough; The
Coming of Gabrielle; The Passing of the Essenes; Martyn,
The Heather Field; Maeve; The Tale of the Town;
An Enchanted Sea.
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Monographs & Essays
1916 - 1969
- Susan Mitchell, George Moore (Dublin: Maunsel 1916) [available
at Internet Archive - online].
- John Freeman, A Portrait of George Moore in a Study of His
Work (London: Werner Laurie 1922).
- Geraint Goodwin, Conversations with George Moore [New
Lib. Ser.] (London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1929; NY: Knopf 1930), Do.
(London: Jonathan Cape 1937), 249pp;
- Humbert Wolfe, George Moore (London: Butterworth 1931)
[ltd. edn. 250]; Do., rev. edn. ([London: Butterworth]
1933).
- John Eglinton, George Moore, in Irish Literary
Portraits (London: Macmillan 1935).
- Charles Morgan, Epitaph on George Moore (London: Macmillan
1935).
- Joseph M. Hone, Life of George Moore, with an account
of his last years by his cook and housekeeper, Clara Warville
(London: Gollancz 1936; NY: Macmillan 1936), 515pp. [incls. Desmond
Shawe-Taylor, The Achievement of George Moore, pp.465-92;
Authorities and acknowledgments, pp.9-12; The
Works of George Moore: A Short Bibliography, pp.498-502].
- J. H. Hone, The Moores of Moore Hall (London: Jonathan
Cape 1939).
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Moores, in New Statesman,
18 (1939), pp.758-60 [rep. in The Mulberry Tree: Writings of
Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Hermione Lee (Dublin: Poolbeg
1978; London: Virago 1986)].
- Malcolm Brown, George Moore: A Reconsideration (Seattle:
Washington UP 1955).
- Nancy Cunard, GM: Memories of George Moore (London: Hart-Davis
1956).
- F. S. L. Lyons, George Moore and Edward Martyn,
Hermathena, XCVIII (Spring 1964), [q.p.].
- Jean C. Noël, George Moore: LHomme et loeuvre
(Paris: M. Didier 1966), 707pp. [plates].
- Seán McMahon, ‘The Untilled Field,
Éire-Ireland, 1, 4 (Winter 1966), pp.87-93.
- Graham Owens, A Study of George Moores Revisions of
his Novels and Short Stories (PhD Thesis: University of Leeds
1966).
- Graham Owens, ed., George Moores Mind and Art (Edinburgh:
Oliver Boyd 1968), 182pp. [see contents];
- Jack Wayne Weaver, sAn Exile Returned: Moore and Yeats
in Ireland', Éire-Ireland, 3, 1 (Spring 1968), pp.40-47.
- Meredith Cary, Yeats and Moore: An Autobiographical Conflict',
in Éire-Ireland, 4, 3 (Autumn 1969), pp.94-109.
1970 - 1979
- Eileen Kennedy, sMoores Untilled Field and
Joyces Dubliners', in Éire-Ireland,
5, 3 (Autumn 1970), pp.81-89.
- John Cronin, sGeorge Moores The Lake: A Possible
Source', in Éire-Ireland, 6, 3 (Autumn 1971), pp.12-15.
- Douglas A. Hughes, ed., The Man of Wax: Critical Essays on
George Moore (NY UP 1971), 364pp. [see contents];
- William Robert Rodgers, Irish Literary Portraits: W.B. Yeats,
James Joyce, George Moore, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St John
Gogarty, F.R. Higgins, A.E. [broadcast conversations with
those who knew them] (London: BBC 1972).
- Janet Egleson Dunleavy, George Moore: The Artists Vision
- The Storytellers Art (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP 1973).
- Bonnie Kime Scott, Joyces Schooling in the Field
of George Moore, in Éire-Ireland, 9, 4 (1974),
pp.117-41.
- Frederick W. Seinfelt, George Moore: Irelands Unconventional
Realist (Phil: Dorrance & Co. 1975).
- T. R. Henn, foreword to George Moore, The Untilled Field
(Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1976), [i]-xxv. [see extract]
- Richard Allen Cave, Afterword to The Lake
[1905] (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1980), pp.181-239 [see extract].
- Richard Allen Cave, A Study of the Novels of George Moore
(Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe; NY: Barnes & Noble 1978).
- Anthony Farrow, George Moore (Boston: Twayne 1978), 169pp.
- Anito Gandolfo, A Portrait of the Artist as Critic, Moore
and the Background of The Dead, in English
Literature in Transition, 22 (West Virginia UP 1979), pp.239-250.
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1980 - 1989
- Ronald Schleifer, George Moores Turning Mind: Digression
and Autobiographical Art in Hail and Farewell, in
Schleifer, ed., The Genres of Irish Literary Revival (Oklahoma:
Pilgrim; Dublin: Wolfhound 1980), pp.61-92.
- John Cronin, George Moore, A Drama in Muslin,
in The Anglo-Irish Novel: The Nineteenth Century [Vol.
I] (Belfast: Appletree 1980), pp.115-34.
- John Cronin, George Moore: The Lake, in The
Anglo-Irish Novel 1900-1940 [Vol. 2] (Belfast: Appletree 1980),
pp.30-46.
- Alan Warner, George Moore, A Guide to Anglo-Irish
Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1981), pp.61-71.
- Robert Welch, ed., The Way Back: George Moores The
Untilled Field and The Lake (Dublin: Wolfhound;
NJ: Barnes & Noble 1982), 140pp. [see contents];
- Patrick A McCarthy, The Moore-Joyce Nexus: An Irish Literary
Comedy, in Janet Egleson Dunleavy, ed., George Moore
in Perspective (Gerrards Cross: Smythe 1983), pp.99-116.
- Alexander G. Gould, Paralysis and Exile in George Moores
A Drama in Muslin, Colby Library Quarterly,
20, 3 (Sept 1984), pp.152-63.
- Anthony Cronin, George Moore: The Self-Made Modern,
in Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language
(Dingle: Brandon 1982), pp.69-74.
- Janet Egleson Dunleavy, ed., George Moore in Perspective
(Gerrards Cross: Smythe 1983), 174pp. [see contents].
- Richard Allen Cave, George Moore and his Irish Novels,
in Augustine Martin, ed., The Genius of Irish Prose (Dublin
& Cork: Mercier Press, 1985), pp.22-31.
- John Montague, George Moore: The Tyranny of Memory,
in The Figure in the Cave and Other Essays, ed. Antoinette
Quinn (Dublin: Lilliput 1989), pp.86-97.
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1990 - 2000
- Jean Noel George Moores Drama in Muslin,
in Jacqueline Genet, ed., The Big House in Ireland (Dingle:
Brandon; NY: Barnes & Noble 1991), pp. 113-120.
- Jane Roberts, George Moore, A Wild Gooses Portrait
of His Country, Irish University Review (Autumn/Winter
1992), pp.305-19.
- Elizabeth McConnell, Give me a Passion for God
or Man ...: A Study of George Moores Celibates
Series, 1895-1927 (MA thesis, University College Galway/NUI
1992).
- Robert Welch, George Moore: The Law of Change is
the Law of Life, in Changing States: Transformations
in Modern Irish Writing (London: Routledge 1993), pp.35-54.
- Declan Kiberd, George Moore agus an Ghaeilge, in
Idir Dhá Chultúr (Dublin: Coiscéim
1993), pp.129-30 [Irish language].
- Elizabeth Grubgeld, George Moore and the Autogenous Self
(Syracuse: Syracuse UP 1994), 304pp.
- Julian Moynihan, Spinsters Ball: George Moore and the
Land Agitation, in Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination
in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton: Princeton UP 1995), pp.144-61.
- Tony Gray, A Peculiar Man: The Life of George Moore (London:
Sinclair-Stevenson 1996), 352pp., [8 plates].
- James H. Murphy, Insouciant Rivals of Mrs Barton: Gender
and Victorian Aspiration in George Moore and the Women Novelists
of the Irish Monthly, in Kelleher, Margaret, and
Murphy, eds., Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland:
Public and Private Spheres (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1997),
pp.221-28.
- Adrian Frazier, Paris, Dublin: Looking at George Moore
Looking at Manet, New Hibernia Review, 1, 1 (Spring
1997), pp.19-30.
- Adrian Frazier, George Moore: 1852-1933 (London: Yale
UP 2000), 448pp.
- Brendan Fleming, French Spectacles in an Irish Case: From
Lettres sur lIrlande to Parnell and His Island,
in Aaron Kelly & Alan Gillis, eds., Critical Ireland: New Essays
in Literature and Culture (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001),
pp.69-75.
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2001 -
- Brendan Fleming, French Spectacles in an Irish Case: From
Lettres sur lIrlande to Parnell and His Island,
in Aaron Kelly & Alan Gillis, eds., Critical Ireland: New Essays
in Literature and Culture (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001),
pp.69-75.
- Patrick Ward, Exile, Art and Alienation: George Moores
Irish Writings, in Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing
(Dublin IAP 2002), pp.182-231
- Declan Kiberd, Feudalism Falling: A Drama in Muslin,
in Irish Classics (London: Granta 2000), pp.287-301.
- Mary Pierse, ed., George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary
Worlds (Cambridge Scholars Press 2007), 246pp. [contribs.
Lucy McDiarmid, Pádraigín Riggs, et al.]
- Brendan Fleming, Rethinking the Cultural Politics of
George Moore (PhD Diss. Oxford, 2002).
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Critical
Essay Collections |
- Graham Owens, ed., George Moores Mind and Art (Edinburgh:
Oliver Boyd 1968), 182pp. [see contents];
- Douglas A. Hughes, ed., The Man of Wax: Critical Essays on
George Moore (NY UP 1971), 364pp. [see contents];
- Robert Welch, ed., The Way Back: George Moores The
Untilled Field and The Lake (Dublin: Wolfhound;
NJ: Barnes & Noble 1982), 140pp. [see contents];
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- Herbert Howarth, The Irish Writers 1880-1940 (London:
Rockliff 1958; NY 1959);
- Hugh Kenner, Flaubert, Joyce, and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians
(Boston: Beacon 1962), 106pp.;
- Georg Lukacs, The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (London:
Merlin 1962);
- Frank OConnor, The Lonely Voice (London: Macmillan
1963);
- George J Becker, Documents of Modern Literary Realism
(Princeton: Princeton UP 1963);
- Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel (Harmondsworth: Penguin
1972);
- C. P. Snow, The Realists (London: Macmillan 1978);
- J. P. Stern, On Realism (London: Kegan & Paul 1973);
- Gabriel Josipovici, The World and the Book: A Study of Modern
Fiction (London: Macmillan 1979);
- Dorothy Averill, The Irish Short Story from George Moore
to Frank OConnor (Washington: Catholic University of
America 1982);
- John Vernon, Money in Fiction: Literary Realism in the 19th
and Early 20th Centuries (Ithaca: Cornell UP 1984);
- James H. Murphy, Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland,
1873-1922 (Westport: Greenwood 1997), espec. Part I: Upper
Middle-Class Fiction 1873-1890, pp.29-31;
- Ruth Frehner, The Colonizers Daughters: Gender In The
Anglo-Irish Big House Novel (Tubingen: Franacke 1999), 256pp.
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Bibliographies |
- Iolo Aneurin Williams, George Moore: A Bibliography
of his Works, with Prefatory letter by Moore (London: Leslie
Chaundy 1921), 13pp.;
- Helmut E[dwin] Gerber, ed., George Moore: An Annotated
Bibliography of Writings About Him, in Literature in
Transition, II, 1 & 2 (1951), pp.1-91 [2 pts.];
- Edwin Gilcher, A Bibliography of George Moore (DeKalb:
Northern Illinois UP 1970), and Supplement (1988) [reviewed
by Thomas C. Ware, in Éire-Ireland, 6, 2 (Summer
1971), pp.182-85]
- Richard Finneran, Anglo-Irish Literature (MLA 1974).
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Bibliographical details
Graham Owens,
ed., George Moores Mind and Art (Edinburgh: Oliver Boyd
1968), 182pp. CONTENTS: incls. William Blissert, George Moore
and Literary Wagnerism, pp.53-76; Herbert Howarth, Dublin
1899-1911: The Enthusiasms of a Prodigal, cp.94; Graham Owens,
The Melodic Line in Narrative, pp.99-121; Brendan Kennelly,
George Moores Lonely Voices, pp.146-159.
Douglas A.
Hughes, ed., The Man of Wax: Critical Essays on George Moore
(NY UP 1971), 364pp. CONTENTS: F. Swinnerton, George Moore;
J. Eglinton, Recollections of George Moore; W. B. Yeats,
Thoughts on George Moore; A. Clarke, A Visit with
George Moore; V. Woolf, George Moore; E. Starkie,
George Moore and French Naturalism; W. C. Frierson, George
Moore Compromised with the Victorians; P. Ure, George
Moore as Historian of Consciences; G[raham]
Hough, George Moore and the Nineties; G. Hicks, The
Miracle of Esther Waters; B. Nicholas, The Case of Esther
Waters; W. F. Blissett, George Moore and Literary Wagnerism;
C. Burkhart, The Short Stories of George Moore; W. Shumaker,
The Autobiographer as Artist: George Moores Hail and
Farewell;J. C. Noël, The Brook Kerith: Heretical
Romance; Bonny Dobrée, George Moores Final
Works; M. Brown, The Craftsman as Critic; Selected
Bibliography [355-58].
Robert Welch,
The Way Back: George Moores The Untilled Field
and The Lake (Dublin: Wolfhound 1982), 140pp. CONTENTS:
Declan Kiberd, George Moores Gaelic Lawn Party; Robert
Welch, Moores Way Back: The Untilled Field and The
Lake; Richard Allen Cave, Turgenev and Moore, A Sportsmans
Sketches and The Untilled Field; Tomás Ó
Murchadha, A Naked Gael Screaming Brian Boru;
John Cronin, George Moores The Lake: A Possible Source;
Clive Hart, The Continuous Melody of The Lake; Max
E. Cordonnier, Siegfried in Ireland, A Study of Moores The
Lake; Joseph Stephen OLeary, Father Bovary
[105-18].
Janet
Egleson Dunleavy, ed., George Moore in Perspective (Gerrards
Cross: Smythe 1983), 174pp. CONTENTS: Jane Egleson Dunleavy, George
Moore: A Reappraisal; Richard J. Byrne, Moore Hall, 1952:
An Introduction to George Moore on the 100th Anniversary of his Birth;
Jane Crisler, George Moores Paris; James Liddy,
George Moores Dublin; Robert Stephen Becker, Private
Moore, Public Moore: The Evidence of the Letters; Gareth W.
Dunleavy, George Moores Medievalism: A Modern Triptych;
Patrick A. McCarthy, The Moore-Joyce Nexus: An Irish Literary
Comedy' [99-116]; Melvin J. Friedman, George Moore and Samuel
Beckett: Cross Currents and Correspondences; Edwin Gilcher,
Collecting Moore.
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