TY - BOOK AU - Roche,Regina Maria TI - The Children of the Abbey: A Tale AV - PR PY - 2019/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Inheritance and succession -- Fiction KW - Conduct of life -- Fiction KW - Fathers and daughters -- Fiction KW - Gothic fiction KW - Siblings -- Fiction KW - Soldiers -- Fiction KW - Families -- Fiction KW - Youth -- Conduct of life -- Fiction KW - Romance fiction KW - Nobility -- England -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_the_Abbey; Release date is 2019-08-26; Produced by David T. Jones, Pat McCoy & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Children of the Abbey: A Tale" by Regina Maria Roche is a novel published in 1796. This Irish romantic tale follows siblings Amanda and Oscar Fitzalan, who are cheated out of their rightful inheritance by a forged will. Blending Gothic elements like haunted abbeys and old mansions with sentimental storytelling, the novel became a major commercial success that remained in print throughout the nineteenth century. Its popularity inspired references in works by Jane Austen and others, and reportedly sparked a wave of Amandas named after its heroine. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60174 ER -