Regina Maria Roche several editions and were translated into both French and Spanish. "Clermont" was one of the Northanger Horrid Novels satirized by Jane Austen in her novel "Northanger Abbey". She was born in Waterford in 1764, moving to Dublin as a child and then to England in 1794 after her marriage. Her first two novels were published under her maiden name (Dalton) before the success of "The Children of the Abbey" and "Clermont". Both were translated into French and Spanish and went through several editions. However, after her fifth novel, "The Nocturnal Visit", was published in 1800, Roche suffered financial difficulties after
Northanger Abbey (2007 film) say "Northanger Abbey" was made to be a television movie and commented that it was more fun than the book. The "San Francisco Chronicle's" David Wiegand wrote ""Persuasion" is a bigger challenge to try to squeeze into 90 minutes, the real difference between that film and "Northanger" is the latter's consistency of high-quality performances, a careful and attentive adaptation by Andrew Davies and solid direction by Jon Jones." Writing for "The Daily Telegraph", James Walton observed ""Northanger Abbey" was a perfectly acceptable costume drama – but not one that ever really caught fire." Simon Hoggart, writing for "The Spectator", commented