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Article: Regina Maria Roche's "Horrid" novel: echoes of Clermont in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.(Miscellany)(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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"[W]hen you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you."
"Have you, indeed! How glad I am!--What are they all?"
"... Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time."
"Yes, ... but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?"
"Yes, quite sure." (NA 40)
DURING THIS CONVERSATION WITH ISABELLA THORPE, Catherine Morland, the heroine of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, reveals her intense infatuation with ...