George Moore (novelist)

George Moore
George Moore by Edouard Manet, 1879
George Moore by Edouard Manet, 1879
BornGeorge Augustus Moore
(1852-02-24)24 February 1852
Moore Hall, County Mayo, Ireland
Died21 January 1933(1933-01-21) (aged 80)
London, England
Resting placeCastle Island, County Mayo, Ireland
Occupationshort-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materNational Art Training School
Period1878–1933
Literary movementCeltic Revival
Notable worksConfessions of a Young Man, Esther Waters
RelativesJohn Moore (granduncle)
Maurice George Moore

George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) 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.[1] His writings influenced James Joyce, according to the literary critic and biographer Richard Ellmann,[2] 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.

  1. ^ Moran, Maureen, (2006), Victorian Literature And Culture p. 145. ISBN 0-8264-8883-8
  2. ^ Gilcher, Edwin (September 2004; online edn, May 2006) "Moore, George Augustus (1852–1933)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35089, retrieved 7 January 2008 (Subscription required)