Leonard Moore (literary agent)
Leonard Parker Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Died | January , 1959 |
| Occupation | Literary agent |
| Employer(s) | Christy & Moore and Lecture Agency, Ltd. |
| Known for | Literary agent for George Orwell |
Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959[1]) was an English literary agent who became known due to being the literary agent for author George Orwell through their letters.
Early life
[edit]Injured in the leg in the First World War,[2] Moore worked as a journalist before becoming a literary agent.[3]
Career
[edit]A partner of Christy & Moore[4] and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd.,[2] his clients included George Orwell (from 1932 to 1950[5]), Gordon Campbell,[2] Mary Butts,[6] Georgette Heyer[7] (for nearly 30 years from 1922[3]), Carola Oman,[3] Marco Pallis,[3] Catherine Cookson,[3] Jane Mander,[8]Ruby M. Ayres,[9] Gareth Jones,[10] Wilfred Grenfell,[11] and Ruth Collie.[12]
Orwell
[edit]It was in a letter to Moore, in November 1932, regarding the future publication of Down and Out in Paris and London, that Eric Blair first came up with the pseudonym "George Orwell".[1]
According to the historian Daniel J. Leab, some 500 of Orwell's letters to his agent have survived, of which nearly 100 were acquired by the Lilly Library in 1959.[13]
Bibliography
[edit]- Shelden, Michael (ed.) George Orwell: Ten Animal Farm Letters to His Agent, Leonard Moore (1984)
Personal life
[edit]He was the brother of the novelist Henry Moore.[3]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Davison, Peter and Peter Clarke (2001) Orwell and the Dispossessed. Penguin UK At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 Campbell, Gordon (2002) Life of a Q-Ship Captain, p. 303. Periscope Publishing Ltd. At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Georgette Heyer, p. 58. Random House At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ Davison, Peter (2010) The Orwell Diaries. Penguin UK At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ George Orwell: A Life in Letters. W. W. Norton & Company. 2013. p. 494.
- ↑ Foy, Roslyn Reso (2000) Ritual, Myth, and Mysticism in the Works of Mary Butts: Between Feminism and Modernism, p. 118. University of Arkansas Press At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ "Barbara Cartland stole plots, rival author alleged in furious letters" The Guardian. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ Steer, Philip. "Jane Mander, 1877-1949". New Zealand Notes and Queries. 7 (1): 45.
- ↑ "Guide to the Letters of Ruby M. Ayres, 1921 - 1923" Dartmouth College. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ "Was Gareth Jones's surname behind George Orwell’s naming of ‘Farmer Jones' in Animal Farm?" Archived 2013-06-18 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ Rompkey, R. (1985) "Elements of Spiritual Autobiography in Sir Wilfred Grenfell's A Labrador Doctor" in Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, Vol 1, No 1, p. 21. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ "Ruth Collie" Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
- ↑ "George Orwell: An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab," Brown University, Fall 1997. Retrieved on 4 June 2013.