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Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen. Study Guide. Full Text. Test Prep. Character List. Catherine Morland. General Tilney. Isabella Thorpe. Literary Devices. Themes. Motifs. Symbols. Other Literary Devices. Important Quotes Explained. Full Book. Biographical Notice and Advertisement. Volume 1, Chapters 1 & 2. Volume 1, Chapters 3 & 4.
This adaptation aired on PBS in the United States as part of the "Complete Jane Austen" on Masterpiece Classic in January 2008. It stars Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland and JJ Feild as Henry Tilney. A stage adaptation of Northanger Abbey by Tim Luscombe (published by Nick Hern Books ISBN 9781854598370), was produced by Salisbury Playhouse ...
- Jane Austen
- United Kingdom
- 1817
- 1818 (published on December 20, 1817, although the title page is dated 1818)
- Catherine Morland. A seventeen-year-old raised in a rural parsonage with nine brothers and sisters, Catherine Morland is open, honest, and naïve about the hypocritical ways of society.
- Narrator. The identity of the Narrator is unknown, and the narration usually occurs in the third-person. The narrator has special access to Catherine’s thoughts and feelings, but also sometimes gives a brief sense of what… read analysis of Narrator.
- Isabella Thorpe. A conniving, beautiful, and charming social-climber of twenty-one, Isabella befriends Catherine because Isabella believes the Morlands to be as wealthy as their neighbors the Allens, and she wishes to marry Catherine’s brother James.
- John Thorpe. A college friend of James Morland and brother to Isabella Thorpe, John Thorpe is an unscrupulous, rude braggart. He is a boring conversationalist who is only interested in horses, carriages, money and drinking, and… read analysis of John Thorpe.
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Katharine Schlesinger as Catherine Morland; Peter Firth as Henry Tilney; Robert Hardy as General Tilney; Googie Withers as Mrs. Allen; Geoffrey Chater as Mr. Allen; Cassie Stuart as Isabella Thorpe; Jonathan Coy as John Thorpe; Ingrid Lacey as Eleanor Tilney; Greg Hicks as Frederick Tilney; Philip Bird as James Morland; Elvi Hale as Mrs. Thorpe ...
- 15 February 1987
All Characters Catherine Morland Narrator Isabella Thorpe John Thorpe James Morland Henry Tilney (Mr. Tilney) General Tilney Eleanor Tilney (Miss Tilney) Mrs. Allen Mrs. Thorpe Mrs. Morland Mr. Morland
Northanger Abbey. by Jane Austen. Buy Study Guide. Northanger Abbey Character List. Catherine Morland. Naïve, innocent, and imaginative, Catherine is the protagonist of the novel. Before going to Bath with the Allens, Catherine has never been away from her family home in Fullerton for an extended period of time.
Henry Tilney is the second son of General Tilney and is Catherine Morland ’s love interest. Like Catherine’s father, he works as a parson in a rural community. He is witty, charming, and perceptive, with a much larger frame of reference and experience than Catherine has, but is also sincere and loyal.
