

Catherine is an ardent reader of gothic novels, and at times lets her imagination get the better of her, but as the story progresses she learns to distinguish truth from fiction. Leaving her village home to enjoy a season in Bath, Catherine embarks on a series of adventures, encountering romance, friendship, fashion and social ambition. The story follows Catherine Morland, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a country clergyman, who is now ‘in training for a heroine’. Darcy Mr.Northanger Abbey was the first of two novels published posthumously in December 1817, six months after Jane’s death. From the Archives ~ Jane Austen’s Very Own Scrooge!Īrchives Archives Tags 18th century Literature Afternoon tea Antiquarian Books Art Auctions Austenprose Book Giveaway Book illustration Book reviews Books Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Chawton House Chawton House library Christmas Colin Firth Deirdre Le Faye Elsa Solender Emma England English Country Dance Fashion Fashion & Costume Georgette Heyer Great Britain Happy New Year Historical Fiction Holidays Jane Austen Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine Jane Austen Centre Jane Austen Popular Culture Jane Austen Sequels Jane Austen Society of North America jane austen weekends Janine Barchas jasna JASNA-Vermont JASNA AGM Literary History Literature London Mansfield Park Marvel Comics Mr.From the Archives: “Jane Austen’s ‘own darling Child'”.JASNA-South Carolina Event! Ma~ Horses & Fox-Hunting in Jane Austen’s England, with Carol Lobdell.NAFCH – North American Friends of Chawton House.Duchess of Devonshire Gossip Guide-18th century.Henry Tilney, 24 or 25 (25) Oxford (107) incumbent of Woodston m. Miss Drummond, 20,000£ (68), who died nine years before the story (186) their children:Ĭaptain Frederick Tilney, of the 12th Light Dragoons (113).

General TILNEY, of Northanger Abbey in Gloucestershire m. THORPE, a widow, of Putney (122) her children: John, Oxford (32) Edward, Merchant-Taylors’ (32) William Isabella, 21 (33) Anne Maria (115). Richard MORLAND, of Fullerton, in Wilts Mrs. The Marquis of Longtown (139, 224) his daughter (?), Alice (228). King, master of the ceremonies at the Lower Rooms (25, 27). ‘Dorothy’, a housekeeper of romance (158).
