Catharine Grace Gore was an English novelist. She was born in 1799 and died in 1861. In 1823 she was married to Charles Arthur Gore of the 1st Life Guards, and shortly afterwards appeared her first novel, Theresa Marchmont, or the Maid of Honour. She wrote altogether from 60 to 70 novels, clever pictures of fashionable life, among the best of which are Preferment; the Courtier of the days of Charles II; Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb; The Hamiltons; The Banker's Wife; Pin Money; Peers and Parvenues; and Temptation and Atonement. She was also the author of a tragedy, LordDacre of the South; and a successful comedy, A Quid pro Quo. Research Catharine Gore