Regina Maria Roche and Ireland : a Problematic Relationship

Abstract

[Abstract] At the end of the 18th century, when Ireland was treated as a colony, Irish women writers had to negotiate a problematic context when producing their literary works and tackling Irish themes. This is the case of Regina Maria Roche: her Gothic fiction shows the writer’s eagerness to offer her audience a positive vision of Ireland, while also using relevant, historical facts which affected Europeans, and, by extension, Irish and British society. The aim of her contribution was to familiarise British and other foreign readers with what was happening in Ireland.