Aet. 35, to Henry Barnett, editor of the Court and Society Review. In this letter George Moore joined a dustup about plagiarism that began in the Pall Mall Gazette (11 March 1887) and spread to other newspapers. An anonymous letter in the Court and Society Review (16 March 1887) had attacked his realistic writing. Rider Haggard’s friend Andrew Lang, to whom the novel She was dedicated, joined the fray in the Daily News (2 April 1887) and Pall Mall Gazette (5 April 1887). George’s own publisher in 1887-1888, William Swan Sonnenschein, accused him of plagiarism in a letter to the Pall Mall Gazette (11 August 1887). Moore revisited the subject in “Baboonacy” in the Hawk (21 January 1890).
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