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Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey - 2007

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Felicity Jones photographed by Mark Abrahams for GQ Magazine (2014).

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Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey - 2007

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Felicity Jones in Northanger Abbey (2007)

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Thoughts on Northanger Abbey

Part 1: Short and sweet, but still my favourite

I’ve had an unexpected experience reading Northanger Abbey this time around. For some reason, I forgot that this book is kind of short? It’s weird, because it didn’t feel short the first, second, or third time I read it. Maybe because those early readings were for school and we spent 2 weeks discussing it from every angle. Or maybe it just feels short because I’m reading it after Emma and Mansfield Park. I’ve always been a fast reader, so maybe my perceptions are just messed up. But it was so easy to sit down with the intent of reading a few chapters only to find myself halfway into the first volume before I could blink. (Side note: I love the opening chapter and its discourse on what makes a heroine, which I plan on doing a separate post about.) 

Don’t get me wrong, I still adore this book. I just have to force myself to slow down and savour it, not devour it like one of Catherine’s gothic novels.

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Felicity Jones as Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey (2007)

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But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

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