Aet. 42, to an actress. Pearl Craigie’s father later wrote about Journeys End in Lovers Meeting: “Upon the playbill it was stated that the situations were suggested by George Moore from the French of Caraquel [sic]” (John Morgan Richards, Life of John Oliver Hobbes, 1911, page 77).
Pearl published the play in her book Tales About Temperaments (1902) without mentioning George Moore.
In 1922 George told an interviewer that he related the synopsis to Craigie: “She liked the idea and I wrote it out, dialogue and all. She took the script and added some pretty little epigrams and speeches — I always called them her little liver pills — and the play was produced” (Barrett Harper Clarke, Notes on George Moore, 1923, page 101).
After complaining to Ellen Terry about the placement of his name, George was persuaded to let the matter drop to avoid publicity.
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