Catherine Gore

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Standard Name: Gore, Catherine
Birth Name: Catherine Grace Frances Moody
Married Name: Catherine Grace Frances Gore
Nickname: the Poetess
Pseudonym: Albany Poyntz
Pseudonym: The Authoress of The Manners of the Day
CG wrote during the earlier nineteenth century, for needed cash to help support her family.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas.
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Her publications over more than three decades totalled above 70 titles running to 200 volumes:
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
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poetry, plays (though not all her eleven plays performed on the London stage were published), tales, and more particularly novels. She also edited a gift book and contributed articles to magazines. Many of her novel titles flag their particular interest for women readers. Many have European (often historical) settings. Those set in London show sharp awareness of its social stratification, the gulf between fashionable and non-fashionable addresses or accessories, the careless arrogance of those at the top, the snobbish, humiliating struggle of those not quite at the top. Many dramatise the conflict between old and new money, in which the central female figure serves as object of symbolic exchange, as trophy wife. A leading silver-fork novelist, CG kept up her attention to issues of class after the silver-fork moment ended.
Black and white reproduction of an unknown artist's portrait of Catherine Gore, 1848. Her hair is in short curls with a middle parting, and she is wearing a dress with a large floral-patterned collar, that leaves her shoulders bare.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW conceived her book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's spaniel as a little escapade, light relief after the hard slog of writing The Waves. No doubt with memories of Sackville portraits for Orlando...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Literary responses Frances Trollope
Mary Russell Mitford spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
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FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Textual Production Annie Tinsley
AT , as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.
The title of Women as They...
Friends, Associates Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth , who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
She developed her case in several important reviews of 1839-40, including her notice of Catherine Gore 's The Dowager. She draws a parallel between authorship and other manufacturing trades, among which, however, authorship is...
Textual Production Mrs Showes
This appears to be her first published work. Its contents are Biography of a Spaniel (which sounds like a forerunner of The Story of a Royal Favourite by Catherine Gore , 1845), The Mask,...
Friends, Associates Mary Shelley
MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving
Textual Production Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The next work by Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton) was a novel or fictional biography: The School for Husbands; or, Molière 's Life and Times.
The title is multiply allusive. Molière's comedy L'école...
Friends, Associates Coventry Patmore
CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...
Literary responses Julia Pardoe
This book was praised by Elizabeth Barrett Browning .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Kadar credits Pardoe and Catherine Gore as the first British writers to observe the modern form of nationalism that was emerging in Hungary in the mid-nineteenth...
Textual Features Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
In the plot, Jim is suspected in the murder of a policeman, but later becomes sensibly disillusioned with repeal. Grace improves her natural goodness by reading the Bible in an almost Protestant manner. She ministers...
Intertextuality and Influence Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the...
Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer...

Timeline

7 October 1571: At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth,...

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7 October 1571

At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth, Turkish or Muslim sea power was crushed by Venetian and Spanish forces commanded by Don John of Austria .

1752: Francis Coventry anonymously published The...

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1752

Francis Coventry anonymously published The History of Pompey the Little; or, the life and adventures of a lap-dog, a novelà clef which satirizes Pompey's successive owners.

1826: William Saunders and Edward John Otley established...

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1826

William Saunders and Edward John Otley established themselves as the lending-library and bookselling firm of Saunders and Otley at 50 Conduit Street, London.

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

June 1843: Ben Webster, manager of the Haymarket, announced...

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June 1843

Ben Webster , manager of the Haymarket , announced a play-writing contest.

17 August 1847: The duchesse de Praslin was murdered by her...

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17 August 1847

The duchesse de Praslin was murdered by her husband in their home in Paris. He attempted to conceal his guilt, then took poison and died during his trial.

Texts

Gore, Catherine, and J. Findlay. A Good Night’s Rest; or, Two in the Morning. J. Duncombe, 1839.
Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley, 1841.
Gore, Catherine. Cecil; or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb. R. Bentley, 1845.
Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland, 1999.
Gore, Catherine. Greville; or, a Season in Paris. H. Colburn, 1841.
Gore, Catherine. Heckington. Hurst and Blackett, 1858, p. 3 vols.
Gore, Catherine. Hungarian Tales. Saunders and Otley, 1829.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
Gore, Catherine. King O’Neil; or, The Irish Brigade. J. Dicks, 1835.
Gore, Catherine. Memoirs of a Peeress; or, The Days of Fox. Editor Bury, Lady Charlotte, Colburn, 1837.
Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849.
Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters; A Tale of the Year 1830. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.
Gore, Catherine. Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination. A. Wahlen, 1836.
Gore, Catherine. Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination. H. Colburn, 1836.
Gore, Catherine. Peers and Parvenus. H. Colburn, 1846.
Gore, Catherine. Pin-Money. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.
Gore, Catherine. Polish Tales. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Gore, Catherine. Quid Pro Quo; or, The Day of Dupes. National Acting Drama, 1844.
Gore, Catherine. Sketches of English Character. R. Bentley, 1846.
Gore, Catherine. Stokeshill Place; or, The Man of Business. H. Colburn, 1837.
Gore, Catherine. The Banker’s Wife; or, Court and City. H. Colburn, 1843.
Gore, Catherine. The Bond. John Murray, 1824.
Gore, Catherine. The Cabinet Minister. Richard Bentley, 1839.
Gore, Catherine. The Diary of a Désennnyée. H. Colburn, 1836.
Gore, Catherine. The Dowager; or, The New School for Scandal. R. Bentley, 1840.