Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959
[) was an English ]literary agent
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A partner of Christy & Moore and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd.,[ his clients included ]George Orwell
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(from 1932 to 1950), Gordon Campbell
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,[ Campbell, Gordon (2002]
''Life of a Q-Ship Captain'', p. 303. Periscope Publishing Ltd.
At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013. Mary Butts
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, Georgette Heyer
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(for nearly 30 years from 1922[), ]Carola Oman
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,[ ]Marco Pallis
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,[ ]Catherine Cookson
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,[ ]Jane Mander
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, Ruby M. Ayres, Gareth Jones, Wilfred Grenfell
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, and Ruth Collie.
Injured in the leg in the First World War
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,[ Moore worked as a journalist before becoming a literary agent.][Kloester, Jennifer (2011) ''Georgette Heyer'', p. 58. Random House]
At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013. He was the brother of the novelist Henry Moore
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Orwell
It was in a letter to Moore, in November 1932, regarding the future publication of ''Down and Out in Paris and London
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'', that Eric Blair first came up with the pseudonym "George Orwell".[ Davison, Peter and Peter Clarke (2001]
''Orwell and the Dispossessed''. Penguin UK
At Google Books. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
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
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in 1959."George Orwell: An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab," Brown University, Fall 1997
Retrieved on 4 June 2013.
References
Bibliography
*Shelden, Michael
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(ed.) ''George Orwell: Ten Animal Farm Letters to His Agent, Leonard Moore'' (1984)
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George Orwell
Year of birth missing
1959 deaths
Literary agents