Catharine Grace Gore, an English novelist, born in Nottingham in 1799, died Jan. 29, 1801. Her maiden name was Francis. In 1822 she married Capt. Charles Gore, and in the following year published her first novel, " Theresa Marchmont." This was followed by several other novels and tales, up to 1831. She passed the five succeeding years on the continent, writing little; but in 1830 she fairly began her career as an author. She brought out nearly 70 works under her own name, besides several which were published anonymously. Of her novels the best known are "Mrs. Armytage," "The Diary of a Desennuyee," "Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb," and its sequel, "Ormington, or Cecil a Peer," "The Banker's Wife," "Pin Money," "Peers and Parvenus," " Preferment, or my Uncle the Peer," " Temptation and Atonement," "Mother and Daughter," " Opera, a Tale of the Beau Monde," "Woman of Business," and "Woman of the World." Among her other works are "Paris, Picturesque and Romantic," " Sketch Book of Fashion," "Sketches of English Character," several translations from the French, among which is the "Rose Fancier's Manual," and a number of dramas.

Her last work was "The Two Aristocracies " (1857).