GORE, CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (1799-1861), English novelist and dramatist, the daughter of Charles Moody, a wine merchant, was born at East Retford, Nottinghamshire. In 1823 she was married to Captain Charles Gore; and, in the next year, she published her first work, Theresa Marchmont, or the Maid of Honour. Mrs. Gore continued to write, with unfailing fertility of invention, one or more novels year by year till her death. She also wrote some dramas, of which the most successful was the School for Coquettes, produced at the Haymarket (1831) .
Mrs. Gore's novels had an immense temporary popularity; they were parodied by Thackeray in Punch, in his "Lords and Liveries by the author of Dukes and Dcjeuners." Some of them deserve to be revived; her Cecil was reprinted with success in 1927.