Catherine Grace Frances Gore

Catherine Grace Francis Gore (nee Moody; 1798 - January 29, 1861), a prolific English writer and playwright, was the daughter of a retailer from Retford, Nottinghamshire. She became one of the most famous writers of silver forks who portrayed nobility and etiquette in the high society of the Regency era. Gore was born in 1798 in London, the youngest child of Mary (née Brinley) and Charles Moody, a wine merchant. Her father soon died, and her mother remarried in 1801 to London doctor Charles D. Nevinson. Therefore, modern reviewers sometimes call her "Miss Nevinson" in scientific works. Gore himself was interested in writing from an early age, nicknamed the "poetess." She married Lieutenant Charles Arthur Gore from the 1st Regiment of the Life Guards on February 15, 1823, in St. George's Square on Hanover Square; Gore resigned later that year. They had ten children, eight of whom died young. Captain Augustus Frederick Wentworth Gore became their only surviving son, and one of their daughters, Cecilia Ann Mary, married Lord Edward Tinn in 1853.