George
Moore, the son of an Irish MP, was
born in Ballyglass, Ireland, in 1852. Educated
at Oscott College in Birmingham, Moore
moved to France
where he studied painting and publishing a book of verse, Flowers
of Passion (1878).
In 1880 Moore moved to
London where he published Pagan
Poems (1881) and several novels including A
Modern Lover (1883), A Mummer's
Wife (1885), A Drama in Muslin
(1886), A Mere Accident (1887),
Spring Days (1888) an autobiography,
Confessions of a Young Man (1888)
and the successful novel Esther Waters
(1894). Moore was
also art critic of The Speaker
and the author of Modern Painting
(1893).
Moore returned to Ireland
in 1899. He became involved in the development of the Irish National
Theatre but continued to write and published two collection of short
stories, Celibates (1895) and
The Untilled Field (1903) and
the novels, Evelyn Innes (1898)
and Sister Theresa (1901). Moore
also published Reminiscences of the Impressionist
Painters (1906).
In 1911 Moore returned
to London and completed an autobiography,
Hail and Farewell (1914). This
was followed by the novel, The Brook Kerith
(1916), a collection of short-stories, A
Storyteller's Holiday (1918), a collection of essays, Conversations
in Ebury Street (1924), the play, The
Making of an Immortal (1927) and the novel, Aphrodite
in Aulis (1930). George
Moore died
in 1933.
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