The Courtier of the Days of Charles II: With Other Tales
Book Details
Author(s)Catherine G. F. Mrs. Gore
ISBN / ASINB003Q6D0TI
ISBN-13978B003Q6D0T3
Sales Rank2,400,985
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This volume was published in 1839.
Contents:
The courtier of the days of Charles II -- The leper-house of Janval -- The household hospital -- Dives and Lazarus, or, Ireland! -- Rigour of the law in 1657 -- The patriot martyr of old England -- Married and single -- The sisters, or, Nature and art -- Ursel -- The royalists of Peru -- The red man -- The christening cloth
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Catherine Grace Frances Gore (Moody) (1799 – January 29, 1861) was a British novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was born. She is amongst the well-known of the silver fork writers - authors of the Victorian era depicting the gentility and etiquette of high society.
Gore was born in London and raised in East Retford and London. Her first novel Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour was published in 1824. Her first major was success was Pin Money, published in 1831, but her most popular and well-known novel was to be Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb published in 1841. Gore also found success as a playwright, writing eleven plays that made their way to the London stage, though her plays never quite became as famous as her witty novels.
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."
Contents:
The courtier of the days of Charles II -- The leper-house of Janval -- The household hospital -- Dives and Lazarus, or, Ireland! -- Rigour of the law in 1657 -- The patriot martyr of old England -- Married and single -- The sisters, or, Nature and art -- Ursel -- The royalists of Peru -- The red man -- The christening cloth
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Catherine Grace Frances Gore (Moody) (1799 – January 29, 1861) was a British novelist and dramatist, daughter of a wine merchant at Retford, where she was born. She is amongst the well-known of the silver fork writers - authors of the Victorian era depicting the gentility and etiquette of high society.
Gore was born in London and raised in East Retford and London. Her first novel Theresa Marchment, or The Maid of Honour was published in 1824. Her first major was success was Pin Money, published in 1831, but her most popular and well-known novel was to be Cecil, or Adventures of a Coxcomb published in 1841. Gore also found success as a playwright, writing eleven plays that made their way to the London stage, though her plays never quite became as famous as her witty novels.
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."
