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George Moore Interactive is work-in-progress. It achieves 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.

Blog

A GMi logo at the top of every page opens a directory of monthly blog posts. Subscribers receive email notifications of each new post. A separate .blog domain was taken offline in May 2024.

Aesthetics

I edited and published on this website all of the art and literary criticism in these books: Martin Luther, Literature at Nurse, Impressions and Opinions, Modern Painting, A Preface to The Bending of the Bough, Avowals, and Conversations in Ebury Street.

I edited and published a Kindle edition of Avowals. All GMi Kindle editions are shown in the Shop

I edited and published on this website most of the uncollected art and literary criticism in numerous vintage periodicals.

I have still to edit and publish a few 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 have 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. A recent addition was granduncle John Moore, martyr of the 1798 Irish Rebellion whom I previously overlooked.

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 is turning 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.

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 collected digital scans of almost all first editions and unpublished manuscripts of Moore’s world building in books and periodicals.

I edited and published the creative content of Martin Luther, A Mummer’s Wife, and Conversations in Ebury Street in the Worlds pillar of this website and as ebooks in the Amazon Kindle Store. All GMi Kindle editions are shown in the Shop

Letters

My first step with the Letters will be to scan my PhD dissertation, which includes careful transcriptions of about 1,000 letters 1863-1901. I have qualified a vendor for nondestructive scanning of these 1400 pages of typescript. Following that step, I will begin stripping out my annotations and committing the uncluttered texts to Google Docs. This work commences in mid 2024.

Letters to the editor will be double-posted to the Letters and the Aesthetics pillars.

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.

I also provided access to my Google Drive for the bibliography. This enables users to perform keyword searches of the entire work and to insert comments on specific lines of text. (Searches of each section are supported on this website.)

Kathi and I are now augmenting the digital bibliography with entries that postdate the last printed version of 1988.

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 2025.

Collections

Other than conceptualizing the Collections pillar, I have not worked on it at all. 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. They include booksellers, private collectors, and institutional collections.

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