Catherine Gore

Catherine Grace Frances Gore (née Moody; 12 February 1798 – 29 January 1861),

Early life and marriage Gore was born in 1798 in London, the youngest child of Mary (née Brinley) and Charles Moody, a wine merchant. Her father died soon afterwards, and her mother remarried in 1801, to the London physician Charles D. Nevinson. She is therefore referred to sometimes as "Miss Nevinson" by contemporary reviewers and in scholarly writings. Gore herself was interested in writing from an early age, gaining the nickname "the Poetess". and was the father of tennis champion Arthur Wentworth Gore. Their eldest child and sole surviving daughter, Cecilia Anne Mary, married Lord Edward Thynne in 1853. She also wrote for the stage, composed music, and published The Book of Roses, or The Rose Fancier's Manual (1838), a guide to the cultivation of roses.

Gore's 1861 obituary in The Times concluded that Gore was "the best novel writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her age."

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