Leonard Parker Moore (died January 1959) was an English

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. A partner of Christy & Moore and of the Lecture Agency, Ltd., his clients included

George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitari ...

(from 1932 to 1950),

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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,

Georgette Heyer Georgette Heyer (; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother ...

(for nearly 30 years from 1922),

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, Jane Mander, Ruby M. Ayres, Gareth Jones,

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, and Ruth Collie. Injured in the leg in the

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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 Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...

Orwell

It was in a letter to Moore, in November 1932, regarding the future publication of ''

Down and Out in Paris and London ''Down and Out in Paris and London'' is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, ...

'', 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

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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.

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* Shelden, Michael (ed.) ''George Orwell: Ten Animal Farm Letters to His Agent, Leonard Moore'' (1984) {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Leonard George Orwell Year of birth missing 1959 deaths Literary agents