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
Georgian society in Jane Austen's novels titular "Northanger Abbey", or Donwell Abbey in "Emma"), parks (mansions surrounded by a vast park, like Mansfield Park in the novel of the same name, or Rosings Park in "Pride and Prejudice"), courts (another type of mansion, in theory approached via a vast courtyard, like Sotherton Court in "Mansfield Park"), halls (manors, like Uppercross Hall in "Persuasion", and finally simple houses, like Longbourn House, the home of the Bennet family in "Pride and Prejudice". This is why Catherine Morland is so delighted when she discovers Northanger Abbey, thinking, "With all the chances against her of house, hall, place, park, court,