The Two Aristocracies

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. There is something of Jane Austen’s influence to be traced in her novels. Catherine Gore was a very prolific worker. 


The Two Aristocracies, published in 1857, is the second to last novel by Catherine Gore.  At the center of the novel is Mark Barneson an outcast, determined to make his way in the world through honest hard work. He is taken in by the forge-master Matthew Lambert, and thus meets his daughters Rhoda and Lettice. Mark Barneson eventually achieves success in business and love, and becomes a wealthy man...