The Regency Portfolio: Austen’s Characters and Marginalia
Austen’s Characters: Through the Eyes of Contemporaries Northanger Abbey.Catherine Morland 🌹Henrietta Le Clerc by George Romney (1796) Jane Austen began drafting Northanger Abbey (originally titled Susan) around 1798. At that time, the idealized beauty of the mid-18th century was giving way to a more natural, youthful aesthetic. In