Northanger Abbey
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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
It has sometimes been thought—perhaps mistakenly—that the exhibition of it in Northanger Abbey is, though a very creditable essay, not consummate.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
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