'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 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
'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
'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
'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
'Saturday 7th August
?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
'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
'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
'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
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
'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
'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’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
'. . . 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
'. . . 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.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
'Read "Esther Waters" which I though excellent — so direct and simple — and "La Seconde Vie de Michel Teissier" which interested me. Prosperous journey — lunched in the train after the tunnel we read our diaries aloud; got into mists which hid the view.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book ,”The Day’s
Work”, a novel). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimental Tommy” (last year).[...]
George Moore has published the novel “Evelyn Innes”—un succès d’estime. He is supposed to
belong to the naturalistic school and Zola is his prophet. Tout ça, c’est très vieux jeu. A certain
Mr.T Watts-Dunton published the novel “Aylwin” a curiosity success, as this Watts-Dunton( who
is also a barrister) is apparently a friend of different celebrities in the world of Fine Arts
(especially in the pre-Raphaelite School). He has crammed them all into his book. H.G. Wells
published this year “The War of the Worlds” and “The Invisible Man”. He is a very original writer,
romancier du fantastique, with a very individualist judgement in all things and an astonishing
imagination.’
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
'George Moores Gospel according to George and Mary
Hunter is a very tiresome book just like any
rewritten Gospel and most "historical" novels.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Maurice Baring Print: Book
'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,
and I'm feeling quite Browningesque. I haven't got
my movement orders yet, but I've been posted to
the 10th Battn., so my address will be: 10th
Yorshire Regiment, B.E.F., France ... I have just
finished Esther Waters by George Moore. Did
you ever read it? I've always had an instinctive
prejudice against Moore, but I must admit power
and beauty here. It's a study of a simple soul,
and illustrates one of those purely feminine
beauties that fill decent men with wonderment ...
I've now got hold of Evelyn Innes, by the
same author.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Edward Read Print: Book
