The Children of the Abbey - Regina Maria Roche- 1881 J. B. Lippincott & Co vintage hardback Clara Bell Thurston (Binding design courtesy of the

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The Children of the Abbey - Regina Maria Roche- 1881 J. B. Lippincott & Co vintage hardback Clara Bell Thurston (Binding design courtesy of theBlurb: Running through at least eighty editions in the 18th and 19th centuries, Regina Maria Roches The Children of the Abbey (1796) was one of the biggest successes of its time, rivalling and perhaps even outselling Ann Radcliffes seminal Gothic The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). The heroine of Roches novel, Amanda Fitzalan, and her brother Oscar, are unfortunate siblings defrauded of their rightful inheritance, Dunreath Abbey, by a will forged by a