Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances (Moody)
- Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace Frances (Moody)
(1799-1861)
Novelist, dau. of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was b. She m. a Captain Gore, with whom she resided mainly on the Continent, 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.
Short biographical dictionary of English literature .
John W. Cousin.
2011.
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