![]() ![]() These assumptions understandably offend Henry. Having internalized too many novel plots, Catherine surmises she’s walked into a real-life murder mystery, and keeps finding clues that Henry’s father murdered his mother. When she goes to stay in Bath, she meets the Tilney and Thorpe siblings, hijinks ensue, and she ends up falling in love with the dashing Henry Tilney, and goes to stay with him and his sister in their family’s austere manor. Northanger Abbey’s main character is Catherine Moreland, a 17-year-old who reads a lot of novels and fancies herself a heroine. Northanger Abbey’s superlative, per Vox’s Constance Grady, is Jane Austen’s funniest novel. It’s not Pride and Prejudice, which needs no introduction it doesn’t have numerous beloved adaptations, like Emma and it’s not her most mature and serious work, Persuasion, which the internet assures me should be the favorite of real adults. ![]() ![]() Northanger Abbey is seemingly no one’s favorite Jane Austen novel. ![]()
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