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.

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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...
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 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...
Textual Production Susan Ferrier
Though her authorship of Marriage had become to some extent known, she insisted on publishing her second novel anonymously, writing to her sister that she could not bear the fuss of authorism!
Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne.
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Blackwood paid...
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG 's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...
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 Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
She included her own work, along with that of Gore , Mitford , Howitt , Mrs Fraser , and Catherine Crowe . Several editions appeared, up to an eleventh in 1862.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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,...
Textual Production Alethea Lewis
AL 's dedication to Sir Edward Littleton , Member of Parliament for Stafford, praises him in this capacity and as a landlord. Her subscribers include many friends or relations, as well as writers like...
Textual Production Lady Charlotte Bury
LCB also edited novels by other writers. As the authoress of Flirtation she edited Lady Caroline Scott 's A Marriage in High Life, 1828 (of which another edition appeared in 1836).
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In 1837 she...
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...
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...
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
The title-page quotes Johnson 's Rambler. This novel opens with fashionable and effective abruptness: What can I do? These words, spoken in a low tone, and followed by a heart rending sigh, broke on...
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...

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.