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Northanger Abbey

First published 1818

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4.1(12,099)

Catherine Morland leaves her quiet family home for Bath, where assemblies, new friendships and her growing attachment to Henry Tilney introduce her to fashionable society. An enthusiastic reader of Gothic novels, she interprets unfamiliar manners and family secrecy through the conventions of the books she admires.
Invited to Northanger Abbey, Catherine allows imagination to turn ordinary rooms and past bereavement into evidence of hidden crime. Her suspicions offend Henry and expose her inexperience, but General Tilney’s later treatment of her reveals a genuine cruelty founded on money and status. Catherine must learn to distinguish sensational fantasy from the less dramatic injustices of ordinary social life.

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Bath and Georgian Society1720–1830 CE Country House Society1714–1837 CE Gothic Fiction Boom1764–1820 CE Circulating Libraries and Women Readers1740–1830 CE

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Gothic Fiction Romance Social & Domestic Fiction

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