The Children of the Abbey - Regina Maria Roche- 1881 J. B. Lippincott & Co vintage hardback Business (TR’s fifth cousin Franklin Delano

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I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever -- the second I first 'finished' it

Miss Topsy

and an orphaned boy named Bobby Downs

The Children of the Abbey - Regina Maria Roche- 1881 J. B. Lippincott & Co vintage hardback Business (TR’s fifth cousin Franklin DelanoBlurb: 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