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Catherine Gore

1798 - 1861

Best known work

  • Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb, 1841

Other well known work(s)

  • Women as they Are, or, The Manners of the Day, 1830
  • Mothers and Daughters, 1831

Genres

  • Fiction - Novels
  • Plays

Nom de plume

Catherine Grace Frances Gore, Catherine Grace Frances Moody, Albany Poyntz, Miss Nevinson

Social class

Upper class

Parental background

"Distantly connected through the Wentworths with nobility as high as the marquess of Rockingham" (ODNB).

At publication of best known work

  • Age: 43
  • Marital status: Married
  • Number of children: 2

Physical description

"Her nose was Grecian, and she had a profusion of dark hair. In figure she was rather short, with a tendency to embonpoint, but finely proportioned, and altogether of a belle tournure; her complexion was of the clearest" (Le Belle Assemblée, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Addressed Particularly to the Ladies, March 1, 1837).

Did you know?

Gore and her husband had ten children though only two survived into adulthood.

Additional information

A brief biography can be found on the Victorian Web with more detail available on the Orlando Project site (subscription may be required).

 

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