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Northanger Abbey

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[nawrth-ayn-jer, -ang-ger] / ˈnɔrθ eɪn dʒər, -æŋ gər /

noun

  1. a novel (1818) by Jane Austen.


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Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey" happily abandoned her music lessons at an early age, but there are female musical characters in the other five of Austen's six completed novels.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2022

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey affectionately played with gothic tropes for comic effect.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2014

Box Tale Soup brings its puppet-powered adaptation of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" to the Edye, and six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald graces the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2014

Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey meets her husband-to-be, Henry Tilney, at a dance.

From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013

If that wonderful Bath bookseller had not kept Northanger Abbey in a drawer, instead of publishing it, it would have had nearly twenty years start of Waverley.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

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