![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817, as the first two volumes of a four-volume set with Persuasion. In 1817, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum - £10 - that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels. Catherine Morland, the daughter of a country parson, is the innocent abroad who gains worldly wisdom: first in the fashionable society of Bath and then at Northanger Abbey itself, where she learns not to interpret the world through her reading of Gothic thrillers. ![]() It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller who decided against publishing. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written approximately during 1798–99. "Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences." "Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. ![]()
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