![]() ![]() The Allens offer to take Catherine with them.īath initially promises much being crowded near the peak of the season and with daily balls. An unexpected opportunity emerges when Mr Allen, a friend of the family, is required to go to Bath to sooth his gouty constitution. But living in Wiltshire, a village of Fullerton, means she is deprived of the social life a girl of her age should be encouraged to enjoy. And she was neither stubborn nor quarrelsome but in fact had a good heart.īy her mid-teens her interest in suitably girlish things has emerged and her ‘sufficient improvement’ in this aspect has not gone unnoticed. She was not unintelligent but lacked the focus and perseverance to excel. As a child, Catherine was something of a tomboy noisy and wild and preferring cricket to girlish hobbies. This second purpose can make Northanger Abbey read like a cautionary tale for our times.Ĭatherine Morland is the fourth child of ten of Mr Morland, a country clergyman. It is both a coming-of-age story and a satire of the infatuation with Gothic novels. ![]() ![]() Not published in her lifetime, it contains elements readers of her other novels may find surprising. Northanger Abbey is Jane Austen’s shortest novel and the first she completed. ![]()
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