Perhaps less has changed since then than I’d like to admit. I was around 17 when I first read the book I too read a lot of novels and fancied myself a heroine. Being an Austen romance, however, interpersonal and family conflict is resolved and the characters end up in the “perfect happiness” of marriage. These assumptions understandably offend Henry. Having internalized too many novel plots, Catherine surmises she’s walked into a real-life murder mystery, and keeps finding clues that Henry’s father murdered his mother. When she goes to stay in Bath, she meets the Tilney and Thorpe siblings, hijinks ensue, and she ends up falling in love with the dashing Henry Tilney, and goes to stay with him and his sister in their family’s austere manor. Northanger Abbey’s main character is Catherine Moreland, a 17-year-old who reads a lot of novels and fancies herself a heroine. Northanger Abbey’s superlative, per Vox’s Constance Grady, is Jane Austen’s funniest novel. It’s not Pride and Prejudice, which needs no introduction it doesn’t have numerous beloved adaptations, like Emma and it’s not her most mature and serious work, Persuasion, which the internet assures me should be the favorite of real adults.
You will allow, that in both, man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal that in both, it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution that it is their duty, each to endeavour to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbours, or fancying that they should have been better off with anyone else.Northanger Abbey is seemingly no one’s favorite Jane Austen novel. Taken in that light certainly, their resemblance is not striking but I think I could place them in such a view. “And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing.
And in those times, what greater advice is there than turning to our friends for support? Friendship helps us heal. We’ve all had our hearts broken at one time or another.
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