Catherine Morland travels to Bath to spend a 'season' there. She meets Henry Tilney who falls madly in love with her, the two meeting up again in Northanger Abbey. Henry's father, General Tilney, will not allow a marriage due to Catherine's seemingly low status in society.

Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Hampshire, England, and died in 1817. Although published in 1818, this was an earlier work written in 1803. The novel holds up for ridicule the popular view of marriage in high society and seeks to show how romance is a normal reality of life to be treasured, no matter what status one holds.

C.C. (U.K., 2016)