About the Author: Catherine Gore
Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 12 February 1798 – 29 January 1861) was a British novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was born. She is amongst the best known of silver fork writers – authors of the "long" Regency era depicting the gentility and etiquette of high society.
Gore was born in 1798 in London, the youngest child of Mary (née Brinley) and Charles Moody, a wine merchant. Her father died soon afterwards, and her mother remarried in 1801, to London physician Charles D. Nevinson. She is thus sometimes referred to as "Miss Nevinson" by contemporary reviewers and in scholarship. Catherine was interested in writing from an early age, gaining the nickname "the Poetess".
She married Lieutenant Charles Arthur Gore of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards on 15 February 1823 at St George's, Hanover Square; Gore retired later that year. They had ten children, eight of whom died at a young age. They had one surviving son, Captain Augustus Frederick Wentworth Gore, and one daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary, who married Lord Edward Thynne in 1853.
Her first novel, Theresa Marchmont, or The Maid of Honour, was published in 1824. Her first major success was Pin Money, published in 1831, but her most popular and well-known novel was to be Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb published in 1841. Gore also found success as a playwright, writing eleven plays that made their way to the London stage, though her plays never quite became as famous as her witty novels.
The Gores resided mainly on Continental Europe, with Catherine supporting her family by her voluminous writings. Between 1824 and 1862 she produced about 70 works, the most successful of which were novels of fashionable English life. Among these may be mentioned Manners of the Day (1830), Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb (1841), and The Banker's Wife (1843). She also wrote for the stage, and composed music for songs.
Gore's 1861 obituary in The Times concluded that Gore was "the best novel writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her age."
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ISBN10: 1230371141 | ISBN13: 9781230371146
Page count: 138
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... pin money. chapter I. "When a couple are to be married, if their goods and chattels can be brought to unite, their sympathetic souls are ever ready to guarantee the treaty. The gentleman's mortgaged lawn becomes enamoured of the lady's marriageable grove; the match is struck up, and both parties are piously in love--according to act of Parliament.--Goldsmith. "A Most unexceptionable proposal, my dear sister!" said Lady Olivia Tadcaster to Lady Launceston, in the secresy of her dressingroom. "Frederica is a lucky girl; and I recommend her to accept Sir Brooke Rawleigh with as little fuss or delay as possible. Let me see! We are in the first week of June. Maradan, Etching, and the Irish solicitors will manage to keep the matter drawling on for eight or ten weeks; and I shall not get off to Carlsbad before the end of August, unless my niece can make up her mind without further difficulty." "You are always in such a hurry, Olivia! Sir Brooke only made his proposal last night, while we were waiting for the carriage to draw up. And as I had no notion of what was going on, I kept begging Frederica to tie her boa closer, and keep her mouth shut, for fear of the east wind;--so that a definitive answer was out of the question." "Well! and as soon as she reached homo and informed you of what had passed, you wrote to Sir Brooke for an explanation of his intentions, --eh! my dear?" "No, indeed; I am not so fond of business and explanations as yon are." "But you desired Frederica to take up her pen and" "On the contrary, I begged she would take some arrowroot, and go to bed. Well, --please God! I hope shewill be happy. Frederica is a very amiable creature--an excellent disposition; only I never can prevail upon her to take proper care of herself...".
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