Frightening Henry Tilney’s Housekeeper Out of Her Wits
Kim Wilson is the author of At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with …
Category Archives: Northanger Abbey
General Tilney, the Ogre of Northanger Abbey
“In an age when we are examining sexual predation and male power as never before, it may be revealing to …
The Vanity of Human Riches: A Conversation About Class and Wealth in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
In today’s guest post for “Youth and Experience,” Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman discuss both Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. …
Eleanor and Isabella
Saniyya Gauhar, Mahlia S. Lone, and Laaleen Sukhera are members of the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP) and contributors …
Reading, Misreading, and the Plain Truth
Lyn Bennett is an associate professor of English at Dalhousie University, and her most recent book is Rhetoric, Medicine, and …
Petitioning Beggars and Historical Whitewashing in Austen’s Financial Romance
Sara Malton is the author of Forgery in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture: Fictions of Finance from Dickens to Wilde (2009), and …
Bless Me, Henry Tilney, for I Have Sinned
I was hoping Margaret C. Sullivan would write about Henry Tilney for my blog series celebrating 200 years of Northanger …
Riot!—what riot?
Judith Thompson contributed a guest post on the adoption plot of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park for the blog series I …
Parental Tyranny and Filial Disobedience in Northanger Abbey
Theresa M. Kenney says she’s “an Austenite by accident”: “I fell in love with Austen after being pressured to read …
Teenaged Gothic Daydreams: Coming of Age in Northanger Abbey
Gisèle M. Baxter’s teaching and research interests include the Gothic inheritance, especially in Victorian/neo-Victorian literature and popular culture, dystopian and …
