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George Moore occasionally wrote from the Hogarth Club, 1892-1901. The Club was principally for artists and others connected with the arts (such as art critics like himself). Rather than the usual paintings of horses on the walls, members hung their pictures for private viewing prior to exhibition, in that way collecting peer reviews.

Eveleigh Nash in I Liked the Life I Lived (1941) recalled dining at the Hogarth in 1892 and seeing in the same evening the architect the publisher John Lane, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, and George Moore — ”a man with a muddy skin and a battered long nose, [who] was in one of his rare moods when he did not wish to talk to anyone.”

J. Lewis May in John Lane and the ’90s (1936) claimed that a meeting at the Club in February 1894 of Lane, Henry Harland, Aubrey Beardsley, Frank Harris, M.H. Spielmann and George Moore directly led to the founding of The Yellow Book.

This Hogarth Club is the namesake of an earlier Hogarth Club (1858-1861) founded by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of artists that Moore occasionally wrote about in his art criticism.