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Gangbare naam: Langley Moore, Doris
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Langley-Levy Moore, Doris
Geboortedatum: 1902
Overlijdensdatum: 1989
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: England
UK
Geboorteplaats: Lancashire, England, UK
Woonplaatsen: South Africa
Beroepen: costume designer
fashion historian
literary scholar
biographer
Organisaties: Fashion Museum, Bath (founder)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Order of the British Empire (Officer)
Korte biografie: The multi-talented Doris Langley Moore was one of the first important female fashion historians. In 1963, she founded the Fashion Museum in Bath, England (then known as the Museum of Costume) by giving it her own collection. She also was a well-respected Byron scholar, and wrote biographies of Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace and of children's author E. (Edith) Nesbit, among others. Ms. Langley Moore also created the scenario for a 1943 ballet called The Quest, based on Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, which was choreographed by Frederick Ashton for the Sadler's Wells Ballet.

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All Done by Kindness door Doris Langley Moore

It is not fortunate that Ms. Moore's undoubted talent for creating characters of the type one would avoid at friends' parties is so well displayed in this story of an attempt to acquire a group of old masters for a pittance and the steps taken to retain those painting. The burden of unpleasant characters is matched with the level of coincidence and the sardonic tone.

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quondame | Mar 30, 2023 |

Gallery of Fashion 1790-1822, from Plates By… door Rudolph Ackermann

This is a small collection of reproductions of original Regency era fashion plates. Each plate is reproduced full page sized and in color. An excellent choice for someone with a particular interest in the fashion of this period, or the history of fashion plates.

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PuddinTame | Aug 17, 2009 |

Ada, Countess of Lovelace : Byron's legitimate… door Doris Langley-Levy Moore

Excellent biography of the brilliant, tormented daughter of Lord Byron, who, after being raised in a gothic melodrama perpetrated by her mother and maternal grandmother, eventually found her father for herself and asked to be buried beside him in the Byron family crypt at Hucknall. Considered by many the "mother" of the computer age for her work with Babbage.

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beaujoe | May 4, 2009 |

My Caravaggio style door Doris Langley-Levy Moore

The esteemed Byron scholar turns her pen to the mystery of the poet's tragically destroyed memoirs, as a modern-day researcher succumbs to the urge to forge a "found" copy. Moore wisely doesn't fall into the trap others have of attempting to "write" the memoirs herself--Byron's extraordinarily vibrant voice doesn't lend itself to successful immitation.

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beaujoe | May 4, 2009 |

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