Author profile
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
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).