2,128 pages and posts in this website
George Moore Interactive is work-in-progress. It pursues incremental milestones in each of its seven pillars and framework.
I update this page from time to time to note recent progress.
Site Menu
I created new visitor-centered pages on the site menu (upper left corner) that solicit online donations, recruit volunteers, and initiate the GMi Shop for e-commerce. The menu also encourages visitors to make friends in the George Moore Association and learn what it means to kick-start literary legacies.
GMi Monthly
A GMi logo at the top of every page links to an archive of monthly newsletters. The newsletters report progress on this website and discuss aspects of George Moore’s literary legacy. Subscribers receive email notifications of each new post. Visitors are encouraged to subscribe!
Aesthetics
This pillar of the GMi website publishes all of the art and literary criticism in these books: Martin Luther, Literature at Nurse, Confessions of a Young Man, Impressions and Opinions, Modern Painting, A Preface to The Bending of the Bough, Avowals, and Conversations in Ebury Street.
I edited and published Apple Books of all of these publications. GMi Apple Books are cataloged in the GMi Shop.
The Aesthetics pillar also publishes most of the uncollected art and literary criticism in numerous vintage periodicals.
I have still to edit and publish more than 80 uncollected essays of art and literary criticism. I published a list of these essays in a blog post.
Iconography
Under the heading Pictures of George Moore, I curated more than 170 artworks and photographs.
Under the heading Pictures of Family Members, I published a Moore family tree, the Moore coat of arms and motto, and I curated several portraits of kin as far back as great grandparents.
Under the heading Pictures of Friends and Associates I curated portraits of 15 artists who drew or painted George Moore,16 publishers of his books, and 23 girlfriends. My attention will soon turn to a new group named Cronies (male friends).
Under the heading of Places, I curated more than 70 pictures of homes and hotels that George Moore “wrote from” (i.e. used as a return address in letters). To complete this gallery, I have begun adding notable places he visited but didn’t write from; a spectacular example is Westport House, that was painted by his great grandfather in 1761. I also added Ashbrook House, the original Moore manor in Ireland dating to the 1690s.
Under the heading of Illustrations. I have begun posting pictures that appeared in books and articles of George Moore. All of the engravings by Stephen Gooden in four books by George are here.
To the degree possible, my galleries show how people and places looked when George Moore knew them. There are some recent photographs of buildings that have not changed much since he was present.
Worlds
I transcribed, edited and published the creative content of many books in the Worlds pillars of this website and as ebooks in the Apple Books store. All GMi editions are cataloged in the GMi Shop.
In addition to digital chapters and ebooks, I have also published PDFs of each first edition that may be downloaded from GMi and then uploaded to AI research apps (e.g. Notebook LM) for assisted analysis and interpretation.
My early reliance on problematic digital scans in Google Books has been superseded with higher-quality scans that I make with my own CZUR book scanner.
Letters
I am in the process of scanning my doctoral dissertation, which includes literal transcriptions of just over 900 letters, 1863-1901.
My editorial practice for online letters is to promote readability by humans and facilitate machine learning. I normalize page layout and typography. I silently correct holographic text for paragraph breaks, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation. I insert links and bracketed text to clarify meaning. and add minimal explanatory headnotes for that purpose.
After I was well advanced with the Letters pillar of GMi, I began using ChatGPT as an AI research assistant in the summer of 2025. It adds significant value to my previous scholarship! When I complete the digital publication of letters 1863-1901, before continuing with 1902 I will comb through and enhance my earlier annotations that were composed without ChatGPT.
I have completed work on letters of the 1860s-1890s through 1898; working now on letters of the letters of 1899. Progress was slowed in December 2024 by formation of Resurgam NFP.
The epistolary Preface to Martin Luther is in the Literary Criticism section of Aesthetics rather than among the genuine Letters.
Bibliography
I scanned both of Edwin Gilcher’s bibliographies of George Moore, edited them into a unified text and published it on this website. Kathi Griffin, a colleague in California, has proofread the digital text to assure fidelity with printed material.
Recently I began adding entries to the bibliography that postdate Gilcher’s publications. That work will continue.
Chronology
The Chonology pillar of this website will be computer-generated. To that end, I have attached complete dates to events and things in the other pillars wherever possible.
My first unique task in Chronology will be to design the format for publication of that data on this website. That is unlikely to occur before 2027.
Collections
Other than conceptualizing the Collections pillar, I have not worked on it. I expect to begin when most of the literary legacy has been published on this website, sufficient to demonstrate the roles that stakeholders can play. The stakeholders in Collections include booksellers, private collectors, and institutional collections.

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