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name: Regina Maria Roche
about: Regina Maria Dalton (1764–1845) married Ambrose Roche at Rathkyran in Kilkenny, in May 1792. She is considered today to be a minor Gothic novelist who wrote in the shadow of Ann Radcliffe. She was, however, a best seller in her own time. The popularity of her third novel, The Children of the Abbey, rivaled that of Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho.Her book Clermont was Roche’s only real attempt at writing a truly Gothic novel, and is decidedly darker in tone than anything else she wrote. Both novels went through several editions and were translated into both French and Spanish.(source: Wikipedia)
death_date: 1845-03-17 00:00:00