Northanger Abbey

About: (Wiki) Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels. Austen was also influenced by Charlotte Lennox‘s The Female Quixote (1752). Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, but not published until after Austen’s death in 1817. The story concerns Catherine Read more…

Author: Jane Austen

Most well known for “Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austen first publication was “Sense and Sensibility”. However, despite her apparent success during her lifetime, none of Austen’s works were published with her name until after her death in 1817, when her family posthumously published her last works.