Catherine Morland, her head full of Gothic novels, mistakes an ordinary English abbey for a house of dark secrets — a coming-of-age comedy about reading the world too literally.
Books mentioned in Northanger Abbey (15)
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: “It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho.”
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe: “How much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you."”
Camilla by Frances Burney: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”
Cecilia by Frances Burney: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”
Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson: “She very often reads Sir Charles Grandison herself; but new books do not fall in our way."”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “…her question, but he prevented her by saying, "Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day; but as for all the others, they are the stupidest things in creation."”
The Monk by Matthew Lewis: “there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk; I read that t'other day”
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth: “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in…”
Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons: “I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
Clermont by Regina Maria Roche: “Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
The Mysterious Warning by Eliza Parsons: “I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
The Necromancer of the Black Forest by Ludwig Flammenberg: “Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom: “I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath: “Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
Horrid Mysteries by Carl Grosse: “I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.”
Books that mention Northanger Abbey (4)
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams: “Like Catherine Olney in "Northanger Abbey," he yearned for nothing so keenly as to feel at home in a thirteenth-century Abbey, unless it were to haunt a fifteenth-century Prior's House, and both these joys were his at Wenlock.”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “uncomfortably aware of the laundry lists in Northanger Abbey.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “And when, a bit later, I read the story in Grimms’ Fairy Tales, where Sleeping Beauty is asleep for years and years, and the whole palace falls asleep with her, and a forest grows up around them, and it takes a real hero of a prince to hack h”
Atonement by Ian McEwan: Epigraph — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey