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PHYLLIS GOODHART GORDAN
MOORE, GEORGE. Autograph manuscripts of "Chapter 19" and "Chapter 29" of his novel Esther Waters. N.p. [1893]. 15 1/2 and 15 pages, respectively, together 30 1/2 pages, folio, the second chapter on slightly longer sheets, in ink on rectos of lined paper, working drafts with very heavy revisions by Moore, wanting pages 7 and 10 in Chapter 29, some soiling, last leaf of Chapter 29 a little chipped injuring a word, half-morocco folding case (worn). An early version of chapters 20-23, 25-27, and 29 was serialized as "Passages from the Life of a Workgirl" in eleven installments in The Pall Mall Gazette in October 1893; the novel was published first in book form, as Esther Waters...in March 1894. "In 1894 Moore at last became a man of wide renown with the publication of Esther Waters, a novel concerning a servant girl in a racing household. Still in naturalistic vein, it had great merits of observation and description...24,000 copies were sold inside twelve months; and it has its historical place as a protest on behalf of realism against sentimentality" -- Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors. See Gilcher A19.
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MOORE, G. Corrected proofs of a part of the book of short stories [The Untilled Field, London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903]. 8vo, unbound gatherings; contains the complete text only of four of the book's twelve stories, plus an incomplete story, and eight assorted pages from three others; all but one of the stories with corrections and revisions in ink in Moore's holograph. See Gilcher A26. (2)
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MOORE, GEORGE. Autograph manuscripts of "Chapter 19" and "Chapter 29" of his novel Esther Waters. N.p. [1893]. 15 1/2 and 15 pages, respectively, together 30 1/2 pages, folio, the second chapter on slightly longer sheets, in ink on rectos of lined paper, working drafts with very heavy revisions by Moore, wanting pages 7 and 10 in Chapter 29, some soiling, last leaf of Chapter 29 a little chipped injuring a word, half-morocco folding case (worn). An early version of chapters 20-23, 25-27, and 29 was serialized as "Passages from the Life of a Workgirl" in eleven installments in The Pall Mall Gazette in October 1893; the novel was published first in book form, as Esther Waters...in March 1894. "In 1894 Moore at last became a man of wide renown with the publication of Esther Waters, a novel concerning a servant girl in a racing household. Still in naturalistic vein, it had great merits of observation and description...24,000 copies were sold inside twelve months; and it has its historical place as a protest on behalf of realism against sentimentality" -- Kunitz & Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors. See Gilcher A19.
[With:]
MOORE, G. Corrected proofs of a part of the book of short stories [The Untilled Field, London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903]. 8vo, unbound gatherings; contains the complete text only of four of the book's twelve stories, plus an incomplete story, and eight assorted pages from three others; all but one of the stories with corrections and revisions in ink in Moore's holograph. See Gilcher A26. (2)
[With:]
MOORE, G. Corrected proofs of a part of the book of short stories [The Untilled Field, London: T. Fisher Unwin 1903]. 8vo, unbound gatherings; contains the complete text only of four of the book's twelve stories, plus an incomplete story, and eight assorted pages from three others; all but one of the stories with corrections and revisions in ink in Moore's holograph. See Gilcher A26. (2)
