Aet. 35, to an editor, bibliographer and art critic. White’s anthology
Ballades and Rondeaus (September 1887) included poems by George Moore: “The Ballad of a Lover of Life” from Pagan Poems (1881); “The lilacs are in bloom” from Mayfair Magazine (May 1884); and a rondel mentioned here. White’s copy of Pagan Poems is now in the New York Public Library.
In a review of A Mere Accident in the Pall Mall Gazette (19 July 1887), George Bernard Shaw caricatured the author’s decision not to describe a rape as the “flinching from duty” of a realistic novelist.
George Moore’s “study of the young men” would become the novel Mike Fletcher (1889), purportedly the counterpart of A Drama in Muslin (1886).
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