A67 George Moore’s Correspondence with the Mysterious Countess

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A67-a First edition

Title Page

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Description

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A67-a First edition

Title Page

DAVID B. EAKIN and ROBERT LANGENFELD

George Moore’s

Correspondence with

the Mysterious

Countess

ELS [script monogram]

English Literary Studies

University of Victoria

1984

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Published August 1984 at $6

Description

Height: 9 in; 22.86 cm

Width: 6 in; 15.24 cm

[1-2]8, [3]4, [4-5]8; pp 72, comprising;

• title page, with series editorial and copyright information on verso, pp [1-2];
• dedication, verso blank, pp [3-4];
• table of “CONTENTS”, verso blank, pp [5-6];
• “ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS”, verso blank, pp 7-[8];
• “INTRODUCTION”, pp 9-15;
• p [16] blank;
• “NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION”, with “Textual Note” on verso, pp 17-18;
• text of letters, pp 19-69;
• pp [70-72] blank;
• issued in heavy tan wrappers,
• with p [2] blank,
• list of other titles in series, p [3],
• notes on editors of this volume, p [4],
• and lettered on front:

first five lines as on title page, but in bold type

caricature of GM (by A. P. Allison)

No. 33 ELS [script monogram] Monograph Series

• and spine lettered down:

EAKIN

LANGENFELD [space] GEORGE MOORE’S CORRESPONDENCE

[space] ELS

Contents

In addition to the “Introduction” and “Notes” by the editors, there are twelve letters from GM (1903-06) and twenty to him from “Gabrielle”. Portions of the GM letters were quoted by Hone, not always accurately, in his biography (B44).

Gabrielle’s letters were used by GM as the basis for some of the dialogue in The Coming of Gabrielle (A39) and its earlier version, Elizabeth Cooper (A33). Late in life GM had a manuscript of her letters prepared for publication, but it was never printed.

The letters, as given here, are from that manuscript (now at the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas), and GM’s afterword to it is included in the editors’ introduction.

Hone, in a reference to the projected edition (p 429), quotes from this “afterword”, but calls it the “preface”.