Perhaps it was because I attended an all girls high school, I read a lot of Jane Austen. Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma, I could not get enough of Jane.
Northanger Abbey, although Jane’s first novel, had been long on my book list. Now, I can officially check it off the list : )
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Moreland is an avid reader of novels and possesses quite the overactive imagination. Naturally, I immediately related to her character.
While on a visit with family friends, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney. As a voracious reader, particularly of Gothic literature, Catherine imagines the scenes she reads are transcending to her actual life and its events. The results? Assumptions, anxiety and many unfounded beliefs about the state of her relationship with Mr. Tilney, his family and even her own friends.
I am definitely a girl who has a tendency to overanalyze and fixate on minute details, which cloud the overall picture and often times the truth. I related to Catherine’s plight in her quest to separate fact from fiction and would recommend this book to those with a similar mindset.
That being said, I’ll be honest. After a hiatus from Jane Austen and similar works, it was a slow start getting into Northanger Abbey and re-acquainting myself with the diction and prose of the time. But it’s like riding a bicycle: you may be a bit wobbly at first but you are quickly peddling away!
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