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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

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Volume I
Chapter I. Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine,
goes to Bath with the Allens     7
Chapter II. Catherine and Mrs Allen go to a ball   13
Chapter III. Catherine dances and talks with Mr Tilney   21
Chapter IV. Mrs Allen meets Mrs Thorpe; Catherine
meets Isabella Thorpe   27
Chapter V. Catherine and Isabella fast friends; a discourse
on novels   32
Chapter VI. In the Pump-room   37
Chapter VII. James Morland and John Thorpe arrive
in Bath   43
Chapter VIII. Catherine meets Henry Tilney again, but
has to dance with Thorpe   53
Chapter IX. On a drive with Thorpe, Catherine misses
the Tilneys   62
Chapter X. Catherine dances again with Tilney; his
father, the General, in Bath   73
Chapter XI. A drive with the Thorpes, missing a walk
with the Tilneys    86
Chapter XII. Catherine apologises to Tilney at the theatre   96
Chapter XIII. Catherine refuses to go to Bristol at the
expense of the Tilneys 103
Chapter XIV. Catherine finally walks with the Tilneys 113
Chapter XV. Isabella engaged to James Morland 124

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Volume II
Chapter I. Catherine dines at the Tilneys; Captain Tilney
arrives; a settlement bestowed on James and Isabella 135
Chapter II. Catherine invited to Northanger Abbey 145
Chapter III. Catherine learns of John’s affection; Isabella
flirts with Captain Tilney 150
Chapter IV. Catherine speaks to Henry about Captain
Tilney and Isabella 157
Chapter V. To Northanger Abbey; Catherine rides
with Henry 163
Chapter VI. Catherine explores her room at the Abbey! 174
Chapter VII. Henry removes to Woodston; A walk round
the Abbey with the General 184
Chapter VIII. A tour of the house; Catherine imagines
all manner of things 196
Chapter IX. Henry catches Catherine in his deceased
mother’s room 205
Chapter X. A letter from James; his engagement is off,
Captain Tilney named 215
Chapter XI. A trip to Woodston 225
Chapter XII. A duplicitous letter from Isabella; Captain
Tilney returned to his regiment 234
Chapter XIII. General Tilney orders Catherine from the
Abbey! 239
Chapter XIV. Catherine arrives home 251
Chapter XV. Henry Tilney arrives at Fullerton and
proposes to Catherine 262

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Chapter XVI. Henry and Catherine marry following Eleanor’s

marriage and the General’s eventual consent 272

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ADVERTISEMENT,

BY THE AUTHORESS,

NORTHANGER ABBEY

THIS little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for

immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was

even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the

author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should

think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-

while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the

author nor the public have any other concern than as some

observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which

thirteen years have made comparatively obsolete. The public are

entreated to bear in mind that thirteen years have passed since it

was finished, many more since it was begun, and that during that

period, places, manners, books, and opinions have undergone

considerable changes.

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NORTHANGER

ABBEY

VOLUME I

CHAPTER I

o one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her

infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

Her situation in life, the character of her father and

mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against

her. Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor,

and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard—and

he had never been handsome. He had a considerable

independence besides two good livings—and he was not in the

least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a

woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is

more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had three sons

before Catherine was born; and instead of dying in bringing the

latter into the world, as anybody might expect, she still lived on—

lived to have six children more—to see them growing up around

her, and to enjoy excellent health herself. A family of ten children

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will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms

and legs enough for the number; but the Morlands had little other

right to the word, for they were in general very plain, and

Catherine, for many years of her life, as plain as any. She had a

thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair,

and strong features;—so much for her person;—and not less

unpropitious for heroism seemed her mind. She was fond of all

boy’s plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but

to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse,

feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush. Indeed she had no

taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly

for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjectured from

her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.—

Such were her propensities—her abilities were quite as

extraordinary. She never could learn or understand anything

before she was taught; and sometimes not even then, for she was

often inattentive, and occasionally stupid. Her mother was three

months in teaching her only to repeat the “Beggar’s Petition”; and

after all, her next sister, Sally, could say it better than she did. Not

that Catherine was always stupid,—by no means; she learnt the

fable of “The Hare and Many Friends” as quickly as any girl in

England. Her mother wished her to learn music; and Catherine

was sure she should like it, for she was very fond of tinkling the

keys of the old forlorn spinner; so, at eight years old she began.

She learnt a year, and could not bear it;—and Mrs. Morland, who

did not insist on her daughters being accomplished in spite of

incapacity or distaste, allowed her to leave off. The day which

dismissed the music-master was one of the happiest of Catherine’s

life. Her taste for drawing was not superior; though whenever she

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could obtain the outside of a letter from her mother, or seize upon

any other odd piece of paper, she did what she could in that way,

by drawing houses and trees, hens and chickens, all very much

like one another.—Writing and accounts she was taught by her

father; French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not

remarkable, and she shirked her lessons in both whenever she

could. What a strange, unaccountable character!—for with all

these symptoms of profligacy at ten years old, she had neither a

bad heart nor a bad temper, was seldom stubborn, scarcely ever

quarrelsome, and very kind to the little ones, with few

interruptions of tyranny; she was moreover noisy and wild, hated

confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the

world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house.

Such was Catherine Morland at ten. At fifteen, appearances

were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her

complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness

and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more

consequence. Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery,

and she grew clean as she grew smart; she had now the pleasure

of sometimes hearing her father and mother remark on her

personal improvement. “Catherine grows quite a good-looking

girl,—she is almost pretty today,” were words which caught her

ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds! To look

almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has

been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty

from her cradle can ever receive.

Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her

children every thing they ought to be; but her time was so much

occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder

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daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was

not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing

heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base ball, riding on

horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen,

to books—or at least books of information—for, provided that

nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them,

provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any

objection to books at all. But from fifteen to seventeen she was in

training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must

read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so

serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful

lives.

From Pope, she learnt to censure those who

“bear about the mockery of woe.”

From Gray, that

“Many a flower is born to blush unseen,

“And waste its fragrance on the desert air.”

From Thompson, that

—“It is a delightful task

“To teach the young idea how to shoot.”

And from Shakespeare she gained a great store of information—

amongst the rest, that

—“Trifles light as air,

“Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong,

“As proofs of Holy Writ.”

That

“The poor beetle, which we tread upon,

“In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great

“As when a giant dies.”

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