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In 1891, a restless George Moore was in his late 30s and living in London. He cofounded the Independent Theatre Society behind his public advocacy of theatre reform. In line with the autobiographical Parnell and His Island (1887) and Confessions of a Young Man (1888), he published the first of what would become Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). He also published a collection of critical essays, Impressions and Opinions (1891), and became the art critic of the Speaker. Still struggling as a novelist, he paused work on Esther Waters (1894) in order to write another dud, Vain Fortune (1891). There are 27 extant letters from the year 1891.

1891-01-23 to William Archer

1891-03 to Mary Blake Moore

1891-03-15 to George Earle Buckle

1891-03-15 to the Editor of The Times

1891-04-01 to William Archer

1891-04-07 to Frans Netscher

1891-04-16 to James Thomas Knowles

1891-04-24 to Clara Lanza

1891-05-02 to Florence Farr

1891-05-16 to Édouard Dujardin

1891-05-24 to Édouard Dujardin

1891-07 to a Speakers Bureau

1891-07-15 to Mary Blake Moore

1891-07-28 to Mary Blake Moore

1891-07-29 to Maurice Moore

1891-08-10 to a Publisher

1891-08-12 to Clara Lanza

1891-09-22 to the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette

1891-09-24 to a Patron of the Arts

1891-09-24 to Clara Lanza

1891-10-01 to Angelena Frances Milman

1891-10-13 to the Editor of The Times

1891-11 to William Archer

1891-12-12 to Lemuel W. Bangs

1891-12-19 to Charles Scribner’s Sons

1891-12-22 to Bernard Partridge

1891-12-29 to Charles Scribner’s Sons