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.
“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 ...