The show’s title, curator Dale Stinchcomb told Observer, is a nod to variations of a phrase that appears in several of Jane ...

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

So says Henry Tilney to Catherine Morland, the hero and heroine respectively of Jane Austen's northanger abbey (completed 1803, published posthumously in 1817). It is a neat summation of the ...

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, which begins to bleed ...

Catherine Morland asks in Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” (1817). And who indeed could ever be tired of the Royal Crescent (completed 1775), ...

Turns out, not exactly; the first option in each of the pairs is a direct quote from Austen’s first description of Catherine Morland as a child: “thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without ...

Jane Austen was a master of the genre: In her posthumously published novel Northanger Abbey, she satirizes the overly imaginative Catherine Morland, a voracious reader who perceives her life as a ...