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Austenprose (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad Beechen Cliff, the Arts, and Natural Surroundings at Jane Austen’s World Take a walk through the countryside of Bath with Ms. Place (Vic) as she continues to explore heroine Catherine Morland’s experience in Bath with her excellent and informative post, Beechen Cliff, [...]
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Austenprose (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad Lower Assembly Rooms and Bath Society at Jane Austen’s World Discover the Lower Rooms in Bath where Catherine Morland the heroine of Northanger Abbey is introduced by the Master of Ceremonies James King to “a very gentlemanlike young man” Henry Tilney and [...]
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Jane Austen in Vermont (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... - dissect might be the better word - how their friend or relative looks. Readers delight in Catherine Morland’s musings over what to wear to her first Bath Assembly; yet, as Byrde points out, poor Marianne Dashwood is inquired of so sharply about her costumes and their cost that Miss Steele knew more of Marianne’s wardrobe than Marianne herself! Readers today might therefore see Miss...
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Austenprose (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... happened while her characters were walking and I am reminded that her heroine’s Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Morland, and Emma Woodhouse were all proposed to in a garden or on a woodland path. Hmm? Should we take a clue from this ladies and get your men outside? Emma resolved to be out of doors as soon as possible. Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil,...
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Jane Austen in Vermont (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... in 1797-98. Norridge says that Austen referenced the sport while introducing her tomboy heroine Catherine Morland, writing: “ It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of 14, to books.” He argues in his book that the reference indicates British people...
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Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... the opening pages of Northanger Abbey, which she wrote in 1797-8. Introducing her tom-boy heroine Catherine Morland, Austen wrote: “It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.” Such a fleeting reference indicated that Austen’s...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... the opening pages of Northanger Abbey, which she wrote in 1797-8. Introducing her tom-boy heroine Catherine Morland, Austen wrote: "It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books." Such a fleeting reference indicated that Austen's...
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Jane Austen's World (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Interested readers, my association with Austenprose’s month-long and comprehensive coverage of Northanger Abbey continues as I visit Beechen Cliff this week. The setting of this site includes some of Catherine Morland’s and Henry Tilney’s most interesting conversations. Here is where Mr. Tilney’s wit shines and Catherine exhibits her wide-eyed naivete towards travel and painting...
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Jane Austen's World (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Dear reader, If you will recall in last week’s post about the Upper Assembly Rooms in Bath, poor Catherine Morland had to sit out the dance, having made no acquaintance with any gentleman. Luck was on her side later in the week when she and Mrs. Allen visited the Lower Rooms: They made their appearance in [...]
