![]() I’m thrilled this wasn’t the first Austen I read, or there might not have been others. ![]() I also know that was Austen’s first novel to be completed for publication, but then held and not published until after her death. I’m assuming they will move on at some point? I do know enough to realize this is a satire on gothic novels, which was probably much funnier in its day, when all the references were well known to readers. ![]() My characters still haven’t made their way to Northanger Abbey, itself, but I am praying these good folks leave Bath and immerse them in something more fun than Upper and Lower Rooms and rides in an open carriage. But I was unfamiliar with this novel and wanted to remedy that. In the intervening years I’ve read several, beginning with Pride and Prejudice, and eagerly watched most of the PBS specials and the movies made from her work. I wasn’t a literature major in college, in fact I only took one American Literature class to fulfill an American Studies requirement. Next I decided I wanted to read Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, as my “book over 100 years old.” Scroll down to the bottom of last Wednesday’s post to hear my thoughts about that one. ![]() First I chose and finished Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage. On January 18th I blogged about the challenge here, and then I promptly got down to business. Catherine Morland, heroine of Northanger Abbey from an edition published in 1833. ![]()
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