William Moore (critic)

William George Moore (11 June 1868 – 6 November 1937) was an Australian art and drama critic.^[1]

Moore was born at Sandhurst (now

and his wife Emily, née Capper.[1] William Moore was educated at Scotch College, Sandhurst,

Katharine S. Prichard, and Moore's The Tea-Room Girl (1910) and The Mysterious Moonlight (1912).^[1]

In 1912 Moore went to London and during World War I served with the British Army Service Corps. Following the war he worked on the press in Sydney for several years. In 1934 he published a conscientious and valuable work in two volumes, The Story of Australian Art. The origins of this was a small pamphlet, The Beginnings of Art in Victoria, which Moore had written in 1905, and the book was gradually built up from original sources over a long period of years. In 1937 with Tom Inglis Moore he edited a collection of Best Australian One-Act Plays, and contributed to it an introductory essay on "The Development of Australian Drama".

In 1923 Moore married Madame Hamelius, well known as a New Zealand and Australian poet under the name of Dora Wilcox (born Mary Theodora Joyce Wilcox in 1873). He died at Sydney on 6 November 1937 and was cremated.^[1] Mrs Moore survived him, and died in 1953.^[1]

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