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) the dastardly deeds at Northanger Abbey," but the audience knew it was about as scary as "a ninja turtle." Ritchie likened the ITV Austen adaptations to a "Posh Country "Home and Away"." Mary McNamara of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote ""Northanger Abbey" the novel was as fun as it gets for Austen, and the television film quite lives up to the same standard." Ginia Bellafante, a critic for "The New York Times", proclaimed the drama gave the audience "innocent faces and heaving breasts, hyperbolizing the sex that always lurks beneath the surface of Austen's astringent presence." She went on to