EDITORIAL

Welcome to the first issue of Moorings: A Bulletin of All Things George Moore. The purpose of this supplement to THE OSCHOLARS is to provide a virtual home for information about the increasing amount of research currently being undertaken on George Moore’s life and work. Much of this new attention has arisen following the publication of Adrian Frazier’s biography George Moore, 1852-1933 (Yale, 2000), which in turn developed from the bibliographical work undertaken by Edwin Gilcher, Helmut Gerber and Robert Langenfeld on Moore’s publication history and on the secondary material available about his life and work, and new interpretations of Moore’s writing by individuals like Elizabeth Grubgeld in her George Moore and the Autogenous Self (Syracuse, 1994). My own interest in Moore's work developed while I was a final year undergraduate and just as Adrian Frazier's biography was published, and I have published a number of articles and chapters on his writing, especially that concerned with issues of gender and sexuality at the turn of the century; with Ann Heilmann I have recently co-edited Moore's collected short stories in five volumes for Pickering & Chatto (see 'New Publications' page).

My intention in these pages (to be updated quarterly) is to offer both a general site of information about Moore and a forum for works in progress, conference announcements, book reviews and any other material relating to Moore’s life and work. One of the more practical sides of the site which I hope to develop in the coming months is a descriptive bibliographical resource holding information about publications dealing with Moore since the end date of Langenfeld’s annotated bibliography. Readers will have to bear with me on this as it will take time to assemble, but I hope it will be a worthwhile resource for those researching Moore – in fact, it can only be as comprehensive as we would all like it to be with your help, so if you do come across references to Moore’s work in critical or mainstream publications then please contact me: m.e.llewellyn@liverpool.ac.uk. In the meantime, this issue lists publications and conference papers on Moore since 2004 and in 2007 respectively; this section will be added to in the coming issues - with your help!

This first issue offers the following –

• a very brief 'About George Moore' page (to be expanded in the next issue)
• an overview of the March 2007 conference on Moore held at the University of Lille
• a review by Elizabeth Grubgeld of the collection edited by Mary Pierse that resulted from the 2005 Moore conference she organised in Cork
• the full text of the 'General Introduction' to The Collected Short Stories of George Moore, edited by Ann Heilmann and myself (5 volumes, Pickering & Chatto, 2007)
• an announcement about the third George Moore conference which I am co-organising with Ann Heilmann to take place at the University of Hull in September 2008
• a publications page with details of work recently published (since 2004 as listed in the MLA directory) or forthcoming on Moore - including details on recent conference presentations on Moore's work. To reach these pages, click in the Table of Contents below.

Issue 2 (Autumn) will include –

• an enhanced biographical page on Moore
• a bibliography of Moore's works
• an updated publications page - including details of mo(o)re conference papers
• a report on the George Moore panel at the 8th Annual BAVS conference
• an article on Moore's Confessions.

Acknowledgments

I am extremely grateful to David Rose for asking me to edit this supplement within THE OSCHOLARS and for his support throughout the bringing together of this first issue - especially his generosity as general editor in allowing deadlines to slip by almost unnoticed. I would also like to thank the growing community of Moore scholars for making working on Moore at the present time such an enjoyable experience. This journal is really for those people who are interested in Moore and want to facilitate some wider discussion of his work using the possibilities of the internet and electronic publication. I would therefore be delighted to hear from anyone who wishes to contribute something to future issues of Moorings in whatever form that contribution might take.

MARK LLEWELLYN


Note added by the General Editor, Oscholars group

Three great Irishmen bestrode the literary world in the 1890s, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and George Moore. Studies of that ‘yellow’ period have privileged Wilde, but I have always felt that both Shaw and Moore function as a sort of anti-Wilde, although of course they are much more than this. To explore this in relation to Shaw, THE OSCHOLARS has been developing an off-shoot called Shavings; now we welcome as part of our group, but with editorial independence, Moorings, devoted to Moore and the rising tide of Moore scholarship. This joins The Sibyl, a quarterly edited by Sophie Geoffroy, and devoted to studying and enriching our knowledge of that remarkable woman Violet Paget, better known as Vernon Lee; and rue de beaux arts, edited by Danielle Guérin, devoted to Oscar Wilde and his Paris connections. All are to be found on our website, www.oscholars.com.

We are delighted that Mark Llewellyn agreed to set up and run Moorings. It confirms the position of the Oscholars group of publications as the most important resource on the World Wide Web for a pluri-dimensional and cosmopolitan study of the period, and to have a role in this is surely something that would have pleased George Moore immensely.

D.C.Rose



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