Catherine Morland

But it's also building up this picture of Henry Tilney's character that is why Catherine's finding herself attracted to him.

'Cause there's this other moment in the, the novel where they're in the village, and Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland find themselves hanging out with a bunch of puppies.

So this is clearly a, they clearly share a love of dogs, uh, and that's a bonding moment for them, that they both find their idea of a good afternoon is hanging out with some really little, really pretty puppies.

[laughs]

Gotcha.

You know, I wonder after the novel's finished, where the dogs fit in in the, in their family home.

Obviously, I don't think Catherine Morland would turf them out, but, uh, I, I would love to ki- picture them.

Well, they've got a Newfoundland, so they already have a built-in nanny for their future children.

Northanger Abbey is a surprise Austin where I've not actually seen any performances of it before now because it's got a lot of flights of fancy.

It's got a lot of... escaping into kind of gothic fiction as catherine morland is fascinated with um like gothic literature and the potential horrors and oh aren't all these things exciting and well you'd get people dressed up in kind of like makeup and dark fans and gargoyle heads and things of course all of it is in her imagination and her her level of fancy about what's going on is kind of shows some fun hubris, which I do love with Austin's protagonists, that they are often incredibly flawed, gloriously so.

So, yeah, it was a really fun time.

And,

They read what they had available.

You might remember in Northanger Abbey when Catherine... tells her new best friend Isabella, we didn't get a lot of books, she said.

I'm not quoting exactly.

New books didn't come our way, but she really liked Sir Charles Grandison, which was two generations old by the time Catherine was reading it, which was presumably owned in the household and could be reread and reread and reread because there was always something new to discover or old delights to find.

And I think it's a fine tribute to Catherine that she can love Sir Charles Grandison as well as the new Gothic novels that she's so excited about.

But for the Austens, it would be the evening's entertainment.

Austen calls it that in a letter.

So what are some things in Austen's novels that you think modern readers are most likely to miss the first time?

The rough and tumble life which followed must have thoroughly suited the taste of any enterprising boy and given him an independence of spirit and a habit of making his own plans which would be exactly what was wanted in the navy of those days when a man of twenty-five might be commander of a vessel manned by discontented, almost mutinous sailors with the chance of an enemy's ship appearing at any time on the horizon.

Riding about the country after the hounds began for Francis at the age of seven, and from what we hear of Catherine Morland's childhood we feel sure that Jane would not always have been contented to be left behind.

Catherine, at the age of ten, was noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.

When she was fourteen we are told that she preferred cricket, baseball, riding on horseback and running about the country to books, or at least books of information, for provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Marianne.

No. Catherine Morland certainly showed plenty of affection and that had a positive effect actually

because her being in love with him made her irresistible it

backed him into a corner but not in a bad way no I think it probably turned out very well for him

The rough-and-tumble life which followed must have thoroughly suited the taste of any enterprising boy and given him an independence of spirit and a habit of making his own plans, which would be exactly what was wanted in the navy of those days, when a man of twenty-five might be commander of a vessel manned by discontented, almost mutinous sailors, with the chance of an enemy's ship appearing at any time on the horizon.

Riding about the country after the hounds began for Francis at the age of seven, and from what we hear of Catherine Morland's childhood, we feel sure that Jane would not always have been contented to be left behind.

Catherine, at the age of ten, was noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.

When she was fourteen, we are told that she preferred cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country to books, or at least books of information, for provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Riding about the country after the hounds began for Francis at the age of seven.

And from what we hear of Catherine Morland's childhood, we feel sure that Jane would not always have been contented to be left behind.

Catherine, at the age of ten, was noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.

When she was fourteen, we are told that she preferred cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country to books, or at least books of information, for provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.