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See also:GORE, See also:CATHERINE See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
GRACE FRANCES (1799-1861) , See also:English novelist and dramatist, the daughter of See also:Charles See also:Moody, a See also:wine-See also:merchant, was See also:born in 1799 at See also:East See also:Retford, See also:Nottinghamshire. In 1823 she was married to See also:Captain Charles Gore; and, in the next See also:year, she published her first See also:work, See also:Theresa See also:Marchmont, or the Maid of See also:Honour. Then followed, among others, the Lettre de Cachet (1827), The Reign of Terror (1827), Hungarian Tales (1829), See also:Manners of the See also:Day (183o), Mothers and Daughters (1831), and The See also:Fair of May Fair (1832), Mrs Armytage (1836). Every succeeding year saw several volumes from her See also:pen: The See also:Cabinet See also:Minister and The Courtier of the Days of Charles II., in 1839; Preferment in 1840. In 1841 See also:Cecil, or the Adventures of a See also:Cox-See also:comb, attracted considerable See also:attention. Greville, or a See also:Season in See also:Paris appeared in the same year; then Ormington, or Cecil a Peer, See also:Fascination, The See also:Ambassador's Wife; and in 1843 The Banker's Wife. Mrs Gore continued to write, with unfailing fertility of invention, till her See also:death on the 29th of See also:January 1861. She also wrote some dramas of which the most successful was the School for Coquettes, produced at the Haymarket (1831). She was a woman of versatile See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent, and set to See also:music See also:Burns's " And ye shall walk in See also:silk attire," one of the most popular songs of her day. Her extraordinary See also:literary See also:industry is proved by the existence of more than seventy distinct See also:works. Her best novels are Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb, and The Banker's Wife. Cecil gives extremely vivid sketches of See also:London fashionable See also:life, and is full of happy epigrammatic touches. For the know-ledge of London clubs displayed in it Mrs Gore was indebted to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Beckford, the author of Vathek. The Banker's Wife is distinguished by some See also:clever studies of See also:character, especially in the persons of Mr Hamlyn, the See also:cold calculating See also:money-maker, and his warm-hearted See also:country See also:neighbour, See also:Colonel See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton.
Mrs Gore's novels had an immense temporary popularity; they were parodied by,See also:Thackeray in See also:Punch, in his " Lords and Liveries by the author of See also:Dukes and Dejeuners "; but, tedious as they are to See also:present-day readers, they presented on the whole faithful pictures of the contemporary life and pursuits of the English upper classes.
End of Article: GORE, CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (1799-1861)
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