Kathryn Laing lectures in the Department of English Language and Literature, MIC, University of Limerick. Mary Pierse, an independent scholar, formerly taught in the School of English at University College Cork.

• IntroductionI. Artistic Influences and ApproachesThe French Artist as Father, Muse and Rival in Memoirs of My Dead LifeAnn Heilmann“Superfluous” Irish Gentry: Moore and TurgenevMárta PellérdiLiterature, Music, Art and the Salon: George Moore’s Perennial Courting of CreativityMary PierseThe Prefaces of George Moore: Enigma VariationsKathi R. GriffinII. Cherchez la Femme?Sphinxes without Secrets: Oscar Wilde, George Moore and the Woman QuestionNathalie Saudo WelbyGeorge Moore, London ‘Literary Ladies’, Networks, and New Artistic ImpulsesKathryn LaingThe “Puzzle” of Gladys Parrish’s Carfrae’s Comedy and George Moore’s Evelyn Innes: Some Intertextual ConnectionsBrendan FlemingIII. France: Fiction and LettersBetween France and Ireland: How George Moore and Helen Waddell used Héloïse and AbélardGeorge HughesA French Train of Thought in ‘Two Men, a Railway Story’: From Impressionism to ExpressionismMichel BrunetEpistolary Truths: ‘How one runs to ones mother when in trouble’Maggie BreslinIV. Politics, Religion and NationalityGeorge Moore and Decadent Catholicism: a Case Study of Evelyn InnesClaire Masurel MurrayGeorge Moore’s Irish Catholic Characters With ‘English’ NamesDavid ClareAppropriating George Moore: J.O. Hannay’s The Seething PotConor Montague

‘This collection conveys the spirit of an active scholarly community. Moore’s relationship with women excites a frenzy of attention – a complex case, and interesting to clarify. Often, a contributor spots George Moore in a contemporary’s writing, or notices how a motif from Moore is countered in a work by a contemporary. Overall, a fascinating fusion of scholarship, truly international.’ Adrian Frazier, Professor Emeritus at the University of Galway and author of George Moore: 1852–1933