Geo. Salter & Co. of West Bromwich, England, designed and manufactured their Model 5 typewriter in the 1890s; it may have been used by Agnes Lahens’ father in Celibates (1895) when he typed John Harding’s manuscript novel. This was the new tool for worldbuilding by modernist writers like George Moore. He himself didn’t type but drafted his early stories and essays longhand; later he dictated them to a stenographer. In both approaches his imagined worlds clearly emerged from a machine like this one. (Antique Typewriters)
George Moore’s worldbuilding spanned the genres of fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir. All of this imaginative writing is here in the text of the first-editions; his critical writing is elsewhere in the Aesthetics pillar.
Books and Pamphlets
A01 Flowers of Passion (1878)
A03 Pagan Poems (1881)
A04 Les Cloches de Corneville (1883)
A05 A Modern Lover (1883)
A08 La Ballade de l’Amant de Coeur (1886)
A11 Parnell and His Island (1887)
A12 Confessions of a Young Man (1888)
A18 The Strike at Arlingford (1893)
A23 The Bending of the Bough (1900)
A25 Sister Teresa (1901)
A26 The Untilled Field (1903)
A27 The Lake (1905)
A29 Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906)
A30 The Apostle (1911)
A31-I Hail and Farewell – Ave (1911)
A31-II Hail and Farewell – Salve (1912)
A31-III Hail and Farewell – Vale (1914)
A32 Esther Waters: A Play (1913)
A33 Elizabeth Cooper (1913)
A34 Muslin (1915)
A35 The Brook Kerith (1916)
A36 Lewis Seymour and Some Women (1917)
A37 A Story-Teller’s Holiday (1918)
A39 The Coming of Gabrielle (1920)
A40 Heloise and Abelard (1921)
A41 Fragments from Heloise and Abelard (1921)
A42 Moore Versus Harris (1921)
A43 Euphorian in Texas (1922)
A44 In Single Strictness (1922)
A45 Insert for Memoirs of My Dead Life (1923)
A46 Conversations in Ebury Street (1924)
A47 Pure Poetry (1924)
A49 Daphnis and Chloe (1924)
A50 Peronnik the Fool (1924)
A51 Ulick and Soracha (1926)
A52 Celibate Lives (1927)
A53 The Making of an Immortal (1927)
A55 The Passing of the Essenes (1930)
A56 Aphrodite in Aulis (1931)
A58 The Talking Pine (1931)
A60 A Communication to My Friends (1933)
A61 The Lilacs Are In Bloom (1934)
A64 Diarmuid and Grania (1951)
M16 Madeleine de Lisle (posthumous)
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