![]() Raised in a small town, her worldview is sheltered and naïve, framed mainly by her avid interest in gothic romance novels. The eldest daughter of a clergyman, Catherine, and her siblings are the rare products of a love-match. ![]() Northanger Abbey entertains with the story of Catherine Morland. Catherine Morland was in training for a heroine. But by the age of 15, appearances were mending. Neither was it very wonderful that Catherine, who had, by nature, nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket and baseball to dolls and books. The Morland’s were, in general, very plain, and Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. ![]() Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, and her own disposition, were equally against her. Prelude: No-one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a great heroine. This accolade might, however, be due to the film’s charms, or simply because it’s the best in a field of very little competition. This, the 2007 adaptation by Andrew Davies for ITV’s Jane Austen Season, is possibly the most widely enjoyed. ![]() With less than a handful of faithful adaptations, Northanger Abbey has fewer interpretations than its more popular contemporaries. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is one of the more neglected Austen novels. ![]()
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