WRITER

George Moore

1852 - 1933

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Moore has received more than 31,880 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). George Moore is the 4,894th most popular writer (down from 4,409th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 194th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Irish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 32k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A mummer's wife
Accessible book
1884
A story-teller's holiday
Storytellers, Accessible book
1918
Esther Waters
Fiction, Mothers and sons, Unmarried mothers
Quoting Wikipedia: "Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother. Esther Waters is one of a group of Victorian novels that depict the life of a "fallen woman"."
1890
Hail and farewell
Accessible book, Biography, Intellectual life
1911
The brook Kerith
Accessible book, Bible, Fiction
1916
Confessions of a young man
Biography, Classic Literature, Fiction
L'A¢me de l'ancien Agyptien s'A©veillait en moi quand mourut ma jeunesse, et j'A©tais inspirA© de conserver mon passA©, son esprit et sa forme, dans l'art. Alors trempant le pinceau dans ma mA©moire, j'ai peint ses joues pour qu'elles prissent l'exacte ressemblance de la vie, et j'ai enveloppA© le mort dans les plus fins linceuls. RhamenA¨s le second n'a pas reA§u des soins plus pieux! Que ce livre soit aussi durable que sa pyramide! Votre nom, cher ami, je voudrais l'inscrire ici comme A©pitaphe, car vous Aªtes mon plus jeune et mon plus cher ami; et il se trouve en vous tout ce qui est gracieux et subtil dans ces mornes annA©es qui s'A©gouttent dans le vase du vingtiA¨me siA¨cle. G.M. PREFACE TO A NEW EDITION OF "CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG MAN" I Dear little book, what shall I say about thee? Belated offspring of mine, out of print for twenty years, what shall I say in praise of thee? For twenty years I have only seen thee in French, and in this English text thou comest to me like an old love, at once a surprise and a recollection. Dear little book, I would say nothing about thee if I could help it, but a publisher pleads, and "No" is a churlish word. So for him I will say that I like thy prattle; that while travelling in a railway carriage on my way to the country of "Esther Waters," I passed my station by, and had to hire a carriage and drive across the downs.
1887

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Moore ranks 4,894 out of 7,302. Before him are Susan Blackmore, Robert Charles Wilson, Dmytro Pavlychko, Alexander Abusch, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, and Matthew Henry. After him are Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Henry of Huntingdon, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, and Kedarnath Singh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, George Moore ranks 104. Before him are Hans Huber, Eilif Peterssen, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema, Johan Ramstedt, and Orest Khvolson. After him are Joseph Timchenko, John Neville Keynes, Daniel De Leon, Theo Heemskerk, Eugène Mougin, and George Clausen. Among people deceased in 1933, George Moore ranks 117. Before him are Alexander von Krobatin, Harriet Brooks, F. Holland Day, Anita Rée, Otto Stapf, and Baltasar Brum. After him are Ludwig Schlesinger, Elizabeth Thompson, Archibald Sayce, Jack Pickford, Sakai Toshihiko, and Anna Brigadere.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, George Moore ranks 213 out of 549. Before him are Alison Doody (1966), Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833), Hugh O'Flaherty (1898), Larry Mullen Jr. (1961), Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911), and Patrick Leahy (1877). After him are Tim Ahearne (1885), J. B. Bury (1861), William Thompson (1775), James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665), Joe Kelly (1913), and Oliver Plunkett (1625).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, George Moore ranks 34. Before him are Maeve Binchy (1939), William Trevor (1928), Colm Tóibín (1955), Richard Steele (1672), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), and Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852). After him are John Connolly (1968), William McGonagall (1825), Michael Scott (1959), Eoin Colfer (1965), Sydney, Lady Morgan (1776), and Colum McCann (1965).

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