Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.Īusten's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she tried then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years until she was about 35 years old. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Īusten lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. Thorpe's son, John, is a friend of Catherine's older brother, James, at Oxford where they are both students and the two young men come to Bath where John is introduced to Catherine. Thorpe, whose daughter Isabella introduces Catherine to Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel Mysteries of Udolpho the two quickly become friends. Soon she is introduced to a young gentleman, Henry Tilney, with whom she dances. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is fond of reading Gothic novels, "provided they were all story and no reflection".Ĭatherine is invited by the Allens (her wealthier neighbours in Fullerton) to accompany them to visit the city of Bath and partake in the winter season of balls, theatre and other social activities. Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. How Catherine views the world has been distorted by her fondness for Gothic novels and an active imagination. The story concerns Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her.
Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, the first of Austen's novels completed in full, but was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote.
"Northanger Abbey" is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by Jane Austen.
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