Arthur Moore

Arthur Moore was a British novelist born in 1866 and remembered for a small body of fiction from the 1890s and early 1900s. Reliable catalog records link him to A Comedy of Masks (1893), written with Ernest Christopher Dowson, as well as Adrian Rome (1899), also a Dowson collaboration, and The Knight Punctilious (1903).

Because so little biographical material is easy to confirm online, Moore remains a somewhat shadowy figure compared with his better-known collaborator. What can be said with confidence is that his surviving work places him in the world of late nineteenth-century English literary fiction, especially the refined, ironic, and socially observant style associated with that period.

For listeners, that obscurity can be part of the appeal: Moore’s books offer a glimpse of a once-active literary voice now mostly encountered through library records, digital archives, and his connection to Dowson.