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George Moore : A Mummer's Wife
'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady who was undressed said to the man 'Bite me' and also got into bed with no clothes on. Mother always wore a nightdress in bed".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Dorrell Print: Book
George Moore : Esther Waters
George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book
George Moore : A Mummer's Wife
'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" as she went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Mitchell Print: Book
George Moore : A Mummer's Wife
'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics]; he wrote to Moore on 24 December 1920, "I wish also to tell you that it was the first chapters of A Mummer's wife [title in italics] which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : A Mummer's Wife
'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : The Untilled Field
'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
George Moore : unknown
'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you must read). 2. de Maupassant. 3. de Goncourts. 4. George Moore?the great author who can neither write nor spell! Stevenson only helps me in minute details of style.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : A Modern Lover
'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : unknown
'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The business has given me vague flitting shapes of ideas for a book on modern fiction.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : Ave
E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, William James, Memories & Studies, G. L. Strachey, Landmarks in French Literature (price 1/-, and oh so good), J. T. Sheppard, Greek Tragedy (also 1/-; Malcolm [Darling] knows him), Foemina, L'Ame des Anglais, Andre Chevrillon, Dans L'Inde, Forrest Reid, The Bracknels, Lascelles Abercrombie, Emblems of Love, Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
George Moore : [unknown]
'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. "I was on a great [George] Moore kick at that time", he said; "probably he was at the bottom of my style, then".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin Print: Unknown
George Moore : Heloise and Abelard
'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting that she was required to present prizes just when she wanted to finish it. In spite of the novel's length and these interruptions, its owner reported that Winifred returned it, read from cover to cover, within a couple of days.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Holtby Print: Book
George Moore : Avowals
'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : Avowals
'. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
George Moore : A Mummer's Wife
'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited for over twenty years. You are indeed the father of all my Five Towns books.'
