"Clermont is the story of Madeline, a porcelain doll of a Gothic heroine, who lives in seclusion from society with her father, Clermont, whose past is shrouded in mystery.

"Running through at least eighty editions in the 18th and 19th centuries, Regina Maria Roche's The children of the abbey (1796) was one of the biggest successes of its time, rivalling and perhaps even outselling Ann Radcliffe's seminal ...

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