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Teachers & SchoolsAs Jane Austen helpfully informs us at the beginning of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland isn't...
Henry Tilney has a few things in common with another famous Henry – Henry Higgins of George...
Isabella Thorpe might just be the most entertaining person in the entire novel. You might say,...
If John Thorpe is loud, rude, a bit dimwitted, blustering, and really overbearing –...
Eleanor Tilney is arguably the most serious character in the book, on two levels. On the one...
General Tilney is accurately, if understatedly, described by Mrs. Morland as a "strange man"...
Catherine's older brother is definitely in the running for best brother in this book. James is...
Captain Tilney is the epitome of the bad boy. He's the type who rides into town on a motorcycle,...
As Catherine's supposed chaperone, Mrs. Allen is pretty ineffectual. If Catherine were more...
Mr. Allen clearly has a monopoly on all the common sense in his marriage to Mrs. Allen. He...
Mrs. Morland is a very good, if somewhat naive, parent. The entire Morland family is a bit...
We definitely hear and see less of Mr. Moreland that his spouse. In fact, Mr. Morland completely...
Catherine's younger sister Sarah, or Sally, is a failure as a sibling, as least in terms of...
The matriarch of the Thorpe clan seems to have a very hands-off approach to parenting. Her...
One of Isabella's younger sisters, Anne Thorpe seems to be the Jan Brady of the Thorpe family....
A younger sister of Isabella, Maria goes on the rather infamous Clifton excursion and appears to...
Mrs. Tilney died nine years prior to the events in Northanger Abbey of a sudden and tragic...