“Oh! Who can ever be tired of Bath?” Catherine Morland asks in Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” (1817). And who indeed could ever be tired of the Royal Crescent (completed 1775), John ...

In Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, spurred on by reading Ann Radcliffe’s book The Mysteries of Udolpho, becomes convinced she is living out her own Gothic fantasy.

Middleton's desk included several Jane Austen novels, including "Northanger Abbey" and "Mansfield Park ... creating a nice reference to Catherine's maiden name. The book was a hit on GoodReads ...