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 Features Isabella Kelly
The title positions the novel in a line running from Robert Bage 's Man As He Is, 1792, and William Godwin 's Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are, 1794, to Catherine Gore
Textual Features Frances Power Cobbe
It is, as the subtitle Reported by Her Mistress suggests, written in the voice of the author's Pomeranian.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Confessions of a Lost Dog. Griffith and Farran.
prelims
It thus follows the tradition of the dog narrators of Francis Coventry 's Pompey the Little...
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
This novel is strongly influenced by silver-fork novels published in the 1830s by authors such as Catherine Gore .
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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It plots the romances and marriages of the three cousins in the eponymous family, most...
Other Life Event Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett 's beloved Flush was again dognapped.
The year after this Catherine Gore published a novel narrated by a dog, The Story of a Royal Favourite, which features this mode of extortion by...
Occupation William Harrison Ainsworth
The son of a solicitor, he entered the same profession but left to pursue his literary ambitions. He wrote many historical novels. As editor or proprietor of Bentley's Magazine, Ainsworth's Magazine, and the...
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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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...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Brownell Jameson
An early review from the Westminster Review mentions its dislike of mixing a guide-book and a romance
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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before going on to censure the author for her inadmissable lie about the authenticity of the diary....
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...
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
Friends, Associates L. E. L.
By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure...
Friends, Associates Georgiana Chatterton
In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor .
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett.
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She moved and entertained...
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...
Friends, Associates Caroline Clive
CC remained a close friend of her early passion Catherine Gore .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
She was also acquainted with Mary Russell Mitford , whom she described as priggy,
Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning ,
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
and Harriet Martineau

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Texts

Gore, Catherine. The Fair of May Fair. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832.
Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons, or the New Æra. Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley and H. Colburn, 1831.
Gore, Catherine. The Hamiltons; or, Official Life in 1830. R. Bentley, 1850.
Kenney, James, and Catherine Gore. The King’s Seal. J. Miller, 1835.
Gore, Catherine. The Lettre de Cachet; and, The Reign of Terror. J. Andrews, 1827.
Gore, Catherine. The Maid of Croissey; or, Theresa’s Vow. J. Dicks, 1835.
Gore, Catherine. The Miseries of Marriage; or, The Fair of May Fair. E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834.
Gore, Catherine. The Money-Lender. H. Colburn, 1843.
Gore, Catherine. The Opera, a Novel. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832.
Bernhard, Carl. The Queen of Denmark. Editor Gore, Catherine, Translator St Aubain, Andreas Nicolai de, Henry Colburn, 1846.
Gore, Catherine et al. The Queen’s Champion. J. Dicks, 1886.
Gore, Catherine. The Rose Fanciers’ Manual. H. Colburn, 1838.
Gore, Catherine. The Sketch Book of Fashion. R. Bentley, 1833.
Gore, Catherine. The Soldier of Lyons. A Tale of the Tuileries. R. Bentley, 1841.
Gore, Catherine. The Story of a Royal Favourite. H. Colburn, 1845.
Gore, Catherine. The Story of a Royal Favourite. Harper and Brothers, 1864.
Gore, Catherine. The Tuileries. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.
Gore, Catherine. The Two Aristocracies. Hurst and Blackett, 1857.
Gore, Catherine. The Two Broken Hearts. J. Andrews, 1823.
Gore, Catherine. The Woman of the World. H. Colburn, 1838.
Gore, Catherine. Theresa Marchmont; or, the Maid of Honour. J. Andrews, 1824.
Gore, Catherine. Women as They Are; or, The Manners of the Day. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830.