Gore, MRS CATHERINE GRACE

Gore, MRS CATHERINE GRACE, a clever and prolific English novelist, daughter of Mr Moody, wine-merchant, was born at East Retford, Nottinghamshire, in 1799. In 1823 she was married to Captain Charles Arthur Gore, with whom she resided for many years on the Continent, supporting her family by her literary labours. These were varied and voluminous to an extraordinary degree, amounting in all to more than seventy works. She died at Lynwood, Hants, January 29, 1861. Her first published work was Theresa Marchmont (1823). Some of her early novels, as the Lettre de Cachet, and the Reign of Terror (1827), were vivid descriptions of the French Revolution; but her greatest successes were her novels of English fashionable life, conspicuous among which were Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb (1841), and Ormington (1842), The Ambassador's Wife, The Banker's Wife, &c. She also wrote The Rose Fancier's Manual (1838). Mrs Gore's books are clever. She had seen much of the world both at home and abroad, and was never at a loss for characters or incidents. The chief feature of her novels is the lively caustic pictures of fashionable and high society, but they are wanting in genuine feeling and simplicity.