Grace Moore

Grace Moore’s Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004) was shortlisted for the 2006 NSW Premier’s Award for Literary Scholarship. She is the editor of Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011) and the co-editor (with Andrew Maunder) of Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation, as well as a number of articles on Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature. She is at present working on a guide to the Victorian novel (Continuum, 2012) and a book-length study of bushfires in nineteenth-century settler literature. She teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Grace Moore reviews 'Charles Dickens' by Michael Slater

April 2010, no. 320 • 01 April 2010

Writing a matter of hours after Charles Dickens’s death on 9 June 1870, an obituarist for The Times of London remarked, ‘The story of his life is soon told’. The publication of Dickens’s friend John Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens between 1871 and 1874 soon gave the lie to these words, revealing a far more complex and damaged Dickens than the reading public had ever suspected this nove ... (read more)

Grace Moore reviews 'The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth' by Lillian Nayder

March 2011, no. 329 • 01 March 2011

In September 1857, after twenty-one years of marriage, Charles Dickens began the eight-month long process of separating himself from his wife, Catherine. At forty-two years of age, Catherine had given birth to ten children and managed Dickens’s large household. Until the mid 1850s she and Dickens seemed to enjoy a happy partnership, yet by 1858 Catherine was exiled from the family home and cut o ... (read more)