Miriam Constance Beaumont Vaughan (1901 – 1979), better known by her pseudonym Olive Moore, was a modernist English writer best known for three well-esteemed novels: Celestial Seraglio (1929), Spleen (1930), and Fugue (1932), and for the acerbic essay collection The Apple Is Bitten Again (1934).
Moore claimed to be working on a novel entitled Amazon and Hero: The Drama of the Greek War for Independence, which was never published.
[2] Moore has been termed "a cross between Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, but with a more biting wit.
"[3] Her novels make free use of modernist techniques such as stream of consciousness in their frank dealings with issues of sexuality and disability.
Though considered a highly talented experimental writer, Moore's disappearance (and the rarity of published versions of her texts until the mid-1990s) has led to a relative critical neglect of her work, until recently.