Friends of Hastings Cemetery
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MOORE, Frank Frankfort (1855-
Hastings and St Leonards Observer -
DEATH OF MR. FRANKFORT MOORE. AUTHOR OF NEARLY SEVENTY NOVELS. TRIBUTES FROM HIS LITERARY COLLEAGUES. Author of nearly seventy novels, Mr. Frank Frankfort Moore died at his home, 97, Marina, St. Leonards, on Monday, four days before his 76th birthday. His last book, " A Mixed Grill," containing a collection of intimate memoirs associated with many famous men and women, was published only last year....
Frank Frankfort Moore was born in Limerick, Ireland. He was a poet, dramatist, biographer, novelist. Moore worked as a journalist (1876–92) before gaining fame as an author of fiction.
He left Ireland and visited South Africa, where he travelled for some time. Before returning to Ireland, he visited many parts of India, Burma and South America, describing his experiences in newspapers and magazines
He lived at ‘The Towers’, Edward Road, St Leonards in the early 1920s, and later at no.97 Marina.
He complained after arriving of too many authors living there. He died at St. Leonard's, May 1931.
(Reported also as dying at Lewes)
Poetry
- Flying from a Shadow
- Dawn
- The Discoverer
Plays
A March Hare (1877)
Moth and Flame (1878)
Kitty Clive, Actress (1895)
Novels
- The Slaver of Zanzibar (1889)
- The Silver Sickle (1890)
- They Call it Love (1895)
- The Sale of a Soul (1895)
- Phyllis of Philistia (1895)
- The Jessamy Bride (1896)
- The Millionaires (1898)
- A Nest of Linnets (1901)
- Love Alone is Lord (1905)
- The Artful Miss Dill (1906)
- Fanny's First Novel (1913)
- The Hand and Dagger (1928)
Humour
The Lighter Side of English Life (1914)
A Mixed Grill (1914)
Biography
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith (1910)
History[
A Georgian Pageant (1908)