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In March 1894, after three years of intense effort, George Moore published Esther Waters, a novel that he and others ranked a masterpiece. Probably because of his risqué reputation, the new book was reflexively banned by Britain’s leading bookseller and declined by America’s leading publishers. Undeterred and with admirable humility, he went on to promote the first English translation of Dostoevsky’s Poor Folk (1894), started work on his duology Evelyn Innes (1898) and Sister Teresa (1901), and developed a collection of stories that became Celibates (1895). His income from Esther Waters let him discontinue his weekly column in the Speaker and to focus more “deliberately” on writing fiction. There are 47 extant letters of George Moore from the year 1894.

Letters January-March 1894

1894-01-04 to Mary Blake Moore

1894-01-05 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-01-11 to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle

1894-01-16 to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle

1894-01-20 to Charles Scribner’s Sons

1894-01-26a to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-01-26b to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-01-27 to Lemuel W. Bangs

1894-01-27 to Charles Scribner’s Sons

1894-01-29 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-01-30 to Edmund Gosse

1894-02-01 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-02-21 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-03-05 to Clara Lanza

1894-03-09 to Maurice Moore

1894-03-09 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-03-11 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-03-21 to Maurice Moore

1894-03-26 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-03-29 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-spring to Ada Leverson

Letters April-June 1894

1894-04-02 to Maurice Moore

1894-04-02 to Arthur Quiller-Couch

1894-04-06 to Edmund Gosse

1894-04-20 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-04-25 to Fernand Vanderem

1894-04-26 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-05-01 to Maurice Moore

1894-05-03 to the Royal Academy of Arts

1894-05-03 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-05-03 to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle

1894-05-04 to William Archer

1894-05-05 to Joseph Marshall Stoddart

1894-05-10 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-05-12 to Ellen Terry

1894-05-13 Édouard Dujardin

1894-05-15 to Ellen Terry

1894-06-06 to Angelena Frances Milman

Letters July-September 1894

1894-07-11 to Ellen Terry

1894-07-18 to Ellen Terry

1894-07-25 to Pearl Craigie

1894-08-29 to Clement Shorter

1894-09-02 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-09-09 to Arnold Dolmetsch

1894-09-11 to Arnold Dolmetsch

1894-09 to Arnold Dolmetsch

Letters October-December 1894

1894-10-08 to William Thomas Stead

1894-10-10 to William Thomas Stead

1894-10-12 to Ada Leverson

1894-10-17 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-10-21 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-10-31 to Edmund Gosse

1894-11-28 to Angelena Frances Milman

1894-11-28 to Ernest Vizetelly

1894-11-30 to Ernest Vizetelly

1894-12-30 to Angelena Frances Milman