Editing Eva Moore (section)

==Early life and career==
Moore was born and educated in [[Brighton]], Sussex, the eighth of ten children, the last of whom was the actress [[Decima Moore]]. Her parents were the [[Pharmacist|chemist]] Edward Henry Moore and his wife, Emily (née Strachan) Moore. She attended Miss Pringle's school in Brighton and then studied gymnastics and dancing in [[Liverpool]]. Returning to [[Brighton]], she taught dancing. 

In 1891 she married actor/playwright [[Henry V. Esmond]] (1869–1922). They had three children: Jack (an actor), Jill (the actress [[Jill Esmond]], first wife of [[Laurence Olivier]]) and Lynette, who did not survive infancy. Her husband wrote more than a dozen plays in which she appeared, and they appeared together in more than a dozen plays.<ref name=DNB>Joannou, Maroula. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63879 "Moore, Eva (1868–1955)"], ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 10 February 2011</ref>

[[File:Eva-moore-1894.jpg|thumb|left|upright|In ''[[Little Christopher Columbus]]'', 1894]]
Moore made her first stage appearance at London's [[Vaudeville Theatre]] on 15 December 1887, as Varney in ''Proposals''. She next joined [[John Lawrence Toole|Toole's]] company and appeared at [[Toole's Theatre]] on 26 December of that year as the Spirit of Home in ''Dot''. In 1888, she was back at the Vaudeville in a play with her sisters Jessie and Decima, ''Partners'', by [[Robert Williams Buchanan]]. In 1890, she created the role of the countess of Drumdurris in the [[Arthur Wing Pinero]] play ''[[The Cabinet Minister]]'' at the Court Theatre. In 1892, she appeared as Minestra in the comic opera ''[[The Mountebanks]]'' by ''[[W. S. Gilbert]]'' and ''[[Alfred Cellier]]''. The next year, she created the role of Pepita in the long-running ''[[Little Christopher Columbus]]''.<ref>Johnson, Colin M. [http://www.gsarchive.net/british/columbus/index.html ''Little Christopher Columbus''], The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 2006, accessed 31 March 2018</ref> 

In 1894, she joined [[Charles Hawtrey (stage actor)|Charles Hawtrey]] and [[Lottie Venne]] in [[F. C. Burnand]]'s ''A Gay Widow''.<ref>Sharp, Robert Farquharson. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1DwVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA227 ''A short history of the English stage''], Walter Scott Publishing, 1909</ref> Other stage roles included Mabel Vaughn in ''The Wilderness'' (1901); Lady Ernestone in Esmond's ''My Lady Cirtue'' and Wilhelmina Marr in his ''Billy's Little Love Affair'' (both 1903); and Kathie in ''Old Heidelberg'' (1902 and 1909) with [[George Alexander (actor)|George Alexander]]. In 1907, she took the name part in ''Sweet Kitty Bellaire'' (1907) and played Mrs. Errol in ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'', Mrs. Crowley in ''The Explorer'' in 1908, the Hon. Mrs. Bayle in ''Best People'' and Mrs. Rivers in ''The House Opposite'' in 1909.{{cn|date=April 2015}}