Letters to Lady Cunard, 1895-1933

by George Moore

, 208 pages, frontispiece plus 7 black & white plates, SIGNED and dedicated by Rupert Hart-Davis on front free endpaper, signed twice at different times 1957 and 1985 by the editor

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1979

About the author

George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.

As a naturalistic writer, he was amongst the first English-language authors to absorb the lessons of the French realists, and was particularly influenced by the works of Émile Zola. His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann, and, although Moore's work is sometimes seen as outside the mainstream of both Irish and British literature, he is as often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just because someone is famous and a writer of good books does not make his correspondence with a loved one of any interest.