| Evidence: | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took the first opportunity of stealing the novel in question [Lady Audley' s Secret]. I read it eagerly, passionately, vehemently," afterwards progressing to the rest of Braddon's fiction, including The Doctor's Wife, about "a lady who loved Shelley and Byron", which in turn led him to take up those poets ...' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | George Moore |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1852 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | child |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | Ireland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 3624 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Philip Waller | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 | |
| Place of Publication: | n/a | |
| Date of Publication: | n/a | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 666 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Philip Waller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 p. 666, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3624, accessed: 10 December 2023 | |
| Quotation from George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man (1928). |
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