Catherine Gore

Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 12 February 1798 – 29 January 1861),[1] was a prolific English novelist and dramatist.

The daughter of a wine merchant from Retford, Nottinghamshire, she became among the best known of the silver fork writers, who depicted gentility and etiquette in the high society of the Regency period.

[2] Gore was born in 1798 in London, the youngest child of Mary (née Brinley) and Charles Moody, a wine merchant.

[4] Their eldest child and sole surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary, married Lord Edward Thynne in 1853.

Between 1824 and 1862 she produced about 70 works, the most successful of which were novels of fashionable English life, such as Manners of the Day (1830), Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb and The Banker's Wife (1843).