Mrs. Armytage; or Female Domination is an 1836 novel by the British writer Catherine Gore, originally published in three volumes.
It is a silver fork novel focusing on fashionable high society, a popular genre to which Gore contributed several books.
[4] At the country estate of Holywell Park the widowed Mrs. Armytage wields a heavy hand over her grown children Arthur and Sophy due to her financial control over them.
Arthur rejects her influence, marrying without her permission, and then standing in a by-election and defeating his mother's favoured candidate.
She drives her daughter to an early grave, after concealing a marriage proposal from her beloved, sees her son bankrupted without offering any assistance and plays a part in ruining her daughter-in-law's reputation.