Regina Maria Roche

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RMR had great success as a popular Irish novelist and leading Minerva Press author, using her own name and often listing her previous titles. She also published a couple of novellas, though most of the novellas attributed to her are probably not hers. She first appeared in print in 1789, but reached her highest rate of productivity in the 1820s under pressure of financial troubles.
  • BirthName: Regina Maria Dalton
    In two instances her title-pages reverse the order of her given names.

  • Married: Roche

Milestones

1763 or 1764

Regina Maria Dalton (later RMR ) was born in Waterford, Ireland.
Some reference sources give her birthplace as County Wexford, but she herself says Waterford.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

4 June 1796

Advertisements appeared for RMR 's recently-published novel The Children of the Abbey, A Tale, her first Minerva Press work and her greatest success.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 690-1

18-21 February 1798

An extract from RMR 's The Children of the Abbey appeared in The Time Piece, New York, to publicize the forthcoming American edition.
Pitcher, Edward W. Fiction in American Magazines Before 1800. Union College Press, 1993, http://U of A, Ruth N.

1836

RMR published through A. K. Newman her final, belated novel, The Nun's Picture, A Tale.
Feminist Companion Archive.

17 March 1845

RMR died at her house in The Mall in Waterford. The Chronicle and Munster Advertiser of 19 March reported this, giving her age as eighty-nine.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Regina Maria Roche. 3 Oct. 2016.

Biography

Birth and Family

1763 or 1764

Regina Maria Dalton (later RMR ) was born in Waterford, Ireland.
Some reference sources give her birthplace as County Wexford, but she herself says Waterford.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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