Roche, Regina Maria

1764 - 1865

Irish novelist, largely of Gothic fictions that were often quite popular in their time, although her popularity waned with the passing of the Gothic craze and she died in obscurity. Her most well-known work is Clermont, which is one of the Northanger novels, that collection of "horrid" tales mentioned in Jane Austen's masterful Gothic satire, Northanbger Abbey.

Sites:
Brief biographical note
[Emma Hodinott, Corvey Project, Sheffield Hallam U]
Brief biographical note
[Munster Literature Centre]
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Regina Maria Roche
List of holdings at Corvey Women Writers on the Web.
Bibliography
Partial. [British Fiction 1800-1829]
Annotated Bibliography
[Corvey Project, Sheffield Hallam U]


Etexts:
The Children of the Abbey [1800]
-- synopsis [Corvey Women Writers on the Web]

Clermont [1798]
- excerpt (Volume III, Ch. 2) [Valancourt Books]
-- synopsis [Corvey Women Writers on the Web]
  



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Essays:
"Revising the Radcliffean Model: Regina Maria Roche’s Clermont and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
By Anthony Mandal. [Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 3 (September 1999)]

"The Early Gothic Romances of Regina Maria Roche and the Jane Austen Connection"
By Emma Hodinott. [Corvey Project, Sheffield Hallam U]

"A Review of the Contemporary Critical Reception of Regina Maria Roche"
By Emma Hodinott. [Corvey Project, Sheffield Hallam U]

"Regina Maria Roche."