Aet. 48, to an art and literary critic who was an occasional subject-matter expert and copy editor for George Moore.
The first edition of George’s novel Sister Teresa would run to 90,000 words; the first edition of Evelyn Innes, the first half of the duology, ran to 180,000 words.
Virginia Crawford’s essays Studies in Foreign Literature (1899) would be followed by her biography Fra Angelico: The Dominican Painter, published by the Catholic Truth Society in June 1900.
Arthur Symons’s first book of essays Studies in Two Literatures (1897) was dedicated to George Moore. Dated 19 March 1897 in Rome, Symons spoke of all night vigils by the flame of literature, which they agreed “has but one reason for existence, that it should be a work of art, a moment of the eternity of beauty.” In 1922 George told Barrett Harper Clarke that Symons coined the title Impressions and Opinions for him.
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