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
Persuasion (novel) the power of books over women; namely were women more susceptible to the power of reading than men, and if so, was reading a benign or malign influence on women? Austen had first taken up this question in "Northanger Abbey" where reading Gothic books has comic effects on Catherine Morland, but also gives a more acute sense of reality and to understand people. Pinch wrote that Austen returned to this theme of the power of books on women in "Persuasion", but in a more mature and probing manner, where as the novel is concerned with "... what it feels like