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Northanger Abbey

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[nawrth-eyn-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

Like, in college I read Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen for a class, and my memory of it is extremely spotty.

From Slate • Feb. 7, 2021

It's where Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey were refined and finished; and Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion were written.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2018

Northanger Abbey The two-person British theater company Box Tale Soup uses puppets and handmade props in this comedic adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2014

In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen describes Catherine Morland finding the traces of an imaginary crime.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

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