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I know little about Augustus George Martin Moore (1857-1910), second younger brother of the novelist George, but feel sure that much can still be learned about him.

Married with two children, one of whom (Peter) lived until 1972, Augustus was a journalist, playwright, poet, newspaper editor, and the author of at least three books: Les Cloches de Corneville (with George Moore, privately printed, 1883); The Domestic Blunders of Women by A Mere Man (London : C. Arthur Pearson, 1899); and The Phil May Album (London: Methuen, 1900).

Augustus shared rooms in London in the early 1880s with his brother George; he edited the weekly Hawk when George contributed to it around 1890; and there got embroiled in a public quarrel with the painter James McNeil Whistler, who called him “one of the most squalid specimens [of] these infamous womanizing studio journalists” (University of Glasgow).

George Moore dedicated his sixth novel Mike Fletcher (London: Ward and Downey, 1889):

To
MY BROTHER AUGUSTUS
In Memory of
Many years of mutual aspiration and labour.