Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

When Jane Austen visited Bath in 1799, she wrote to her sister, Cassandra, that her “first view” of the city in southwestern England had been “just as gloomy as it was last November twelvemonth.” But ...

Northanger Abbey is a pointed response to moralising texts like James Fordyce's sermons to young women (1766) – yes, the one that Mr Collins is so fond of in pride and prejudice ...

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A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its ...

Northanger Abbey is a novel about a young woman, Catherine Morland, coming of age in the Regency period. She is naive, quixotic – and fascinated with gothic literature, ...

Northanger Abbey review: This slow-motion muddle fails to immerse, writes PATRICK MARMION. By PATRICK MARMION and GEORGIA BROWN . Published: 18:36 EDT, 25 January 2024 | Updated: 21:29 EDT, 25 ...

So says Henry Tilney to Catherine Morland, the hero and heroine respectively of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (completed 1803, published posthumously in 1817).