![]() Henry's father, General Tilney, invites Catherine to the Tilneys' estate, the eponymous Northanger Abbey. However, Catherine fancies the Tilneys' second son, the gentleman Henry. The Thorpes' eldest son, the egocentric twit John, tries to woo her. There, she meets two families, the Thorpes and the Tilneys. ![]() One day, she is invited to come along with the childless Allens for a trip to the spring resort of Bath. She's become so involved in reading that she fancies herself as the heroine of such a work as The Mysteries of Udolpho. The fourth of ten children, and eldest daughter, 17-year-old Catherine Morland is a Tomboy grown into a major Gothic Novel fangirl. ![]() However, circumstances prevented the novel from being published until after her death in 1817. The definitive Gothic parody, Northanger Abbey was Jane Austen's first completed novel, which she originally entitled "Susan" it developed further the satiric vein found in her juvenilia, such as Love and Freindship. ![]()
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