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Introduction
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Novelist, daughter of a wine merchant at Retford,
where she was b. She married a Captain Gore, with whom she
resided mainly on the Continent, supporting her family by her
voluminous writings. Between 1824 and 1862 she produced about 70
works, the most successful of which were novels of fashionable English
life. Among these may be mentioned Manners of the Day (1830),
Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb (1841), and The
Banker’s Wife (1843). She also wrote for the stage, and
composed music for songs.
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