#Northanger Abbey 1987

[thatscarletflycatcher]

[fairytalelagoon]

Jane Austen March Movie Marathon // Films Watched

[maureen-corpse]

I can’t believe Northanger Abbey is spoiling The Mysteries of Udolpho for me

[bibliophilicstranger]

The Music for Northanger Abbey (1987) is just so ridiculously 80s; it makes it difficult to take any of it seriously.

[bethanydelleman]

Best and worst adaptation of each Austen Novel (or ranking for those that only have one)?

All Austen novels have more than one adaptation; Lady Susan only has one (called Love and Friendship and it's great) but it's a novella. This will be based on what I've watched and I'm going with straight adaptations, not moderns or other variations like Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.

Pride & Prejudice: Best: 1967 BBC Miniseries (favourite interpretation of many characters) Worst: 2005 Hollywood movie (Darcy Shyboi and Elizabeth Tomboy Girlboss)

Sense & Sensibility: Best: 1995 movie (made smart changes while keeping the core of the story correct) Worst: 2008 BBC miniseries (added sex for shock value, Willoughby looks like a little weasel, Colonel Brandon was awful)

Mansfield Park: Best: 1983 BBC miniseries (only faithful adaptation) Worst: 1999 movie (destroyed Fanny, stupid fourth wall breaking, THE SEX SCENE IS BURNED INTO MY MEMORY IN A BAD WAY)

Northanger Abbey: Best: 2007 movie (perfect casting, just wish it was longer and they hadn't messed up the ending) Also best: 1987 movie, but only if you are as high as all the actors and producers clearly were when they made it.

Persuasion: Best: 1971 BBC miniseries (it is a full mini and gives the story enough room to breath, 1995 is also very good) Worst: 2022 Netflix diaster

Emma: Best: 2020 movie (understood the humour of Emma, beautiful costumes, Emma as a snob was very good, made smart updates) Worst: 1996 movie with Gwyneth Paltrow (I hated pouting Knightley and their Harriet and what they did with Mrs. Weston) Honourable mention: I do actually enjoy the 1972 adaptation, it has a perfect Harriet.

Those are my opinions, enjoy!

[historiavn]

COMFORT LIST

COMFORT CHARACTER(S): Mace Windu (Star Wars), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars), Yoda (Star Wars), Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson), Milo Thatch (Atlantis: the Lost Empire), Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird), Elphaba (Wicked), Penelope Featherington (Bridgerton), Christine Daaè (The Phantom of the Opera), Elsa (Frozen), Rose Dewitt Bukater (Titanic), Violet Sorrengail (Empyrean Series).

COMFORT MOVIE(S): Titanic (1997), Night at the Museum (2006), Lincoln (2012), Barbie (2023), Pride and Prejudice (2005), Star Wars: A New Hope (1997), Atlantis: the Lost Empire (2001), Coco (2017), Home Alone (1989), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Princess Bride (1987), Mean Girls (2006), Anastasia (1997), Maleficent (2013), Little Women (2019), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005), The Prince of Egypt (1998).

COMFORT BOOK(S): The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (Rick Riordan), The Empyrean Series (Rebecca Yarros), The Unwanteds (Lisa McMann), To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Divergent (Veronica Roth), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen), Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen).

COMFORT SHOW(S): Bridgerton, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Star Wars: the Clone Wars, Titanic: Blood and Steel, PBS’s Liberty’s Kids, Anne With an E, Turn: Washington’s Spies.

COMFORT SONG(S): The Man (Taylor Swift), Shake It Off (Taylor Swift), Irrelevant (P!nk), Dancing Queen (ABBA), I Hear a Symphony (Cody Fry), Born This Way (Lady Gaga), Ya-Ya (Beyoncé), no tears left to cry (Ariana Grande), Sign of the Times (Harry Styles), Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles).

COMFORT GAME(S): Mario Kart, Minecraft, Club Penguin Journey, The Sims.

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[youritalianbookpal]

Top 10 books for 2023

I tried to give this some order but I am not the most organized being alive. I am proud of having read 49 books, and I take it as a symbol of the fact that I have finally been able, in the past few years, to go back to reading. My love for books and words got me through hard times, and now that I'm doing better and I can make more time for myself, I'm glad I can dedicate myself to this.

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Most beautiful and haunting book I've ever read. Kind of hope no book will ever hurt me like this ever again. I loved it but at the same time I had to talk to my therapist best friend multiple times about this because the damage it could have done to me...

Still. Most beautiful book of the year.

2. Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney gets me in ways I'm not sure I want people I know to get me, let alone a random book I pick up because I liked Normal People like three years ago.

3. Palestinian Trilogy by Mahmoud Darwish

Anthology made up by Journal of an Ordinary Grief (1973), Memory of Forgetfullness (1987), and In the Presence of Absence (2009). It's one of the most poetic and heartbreaking books I've ever read, and one of the books I have been recommending since I finished it in early 2023.

4. Ghosts by Dolly Aderton

Dolly Alderton also gets me in ways I'd rather perople not get me, and she makes me laugh a lot. And cry.

5. The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia could write a grocery's list and I would read it and love it.

6. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Technically a reread, but this was my favorite book at 17 and I'm glad it still is as beautiful as I remember.

7. The Wicked King by Holly Black

I technically rated Queen of Nothing higher than Wicked King but... I think this is more dramatic and iconic and if I have to choose between a kidnapping and an exile I'll always choose the kidnapping.

8. Tutta intera by Espérance Hakuzwimana

Best Italian novel I read in several years. If it doesn't get translated in 204610464 languages then what's the point.

9. Tre ciotole by Michela Murgia

This year we also lost author and activist Michela Murgia. It still feels like I lost my cool auntie, and I know it shouldn't, but it does. To cope I read this and... yeah.

10. If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

If we consider how short it is and how much I cried reading it... it was probably a sob every two pages.

Honorable mentions:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (not incluced because I wanted to keep only 1 book per author).

Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong (extremely tough decision between this and Genki Kawamura, but I had to go with the book that made me cry the most. I will remember 2023 as the year of the Shanghai duologies though, and this is by far my favorite book of the series).

[elletudie]

comfort film marathon at my house, ok?

we’re watching:

pride & prejudice (2005)

the mummy (1999)

ever after (1998)

northanger abbey (2007)

the princess bride (1987)

moulin rouge (2001)

and then maybe the entire lord of the rings trilogy

ok see you later, don’t forget snacks

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"I do not wish to call you my friend because I hope to call you something infinitely more dear... I rode through the rain... I'd ride through worse than that if I could just hear your voice telling me that I might at least have some chance to win you... maybe it is our imperfections that make us perfect for one another. Marry me? Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend."

"But you... you were not deceived, were you? You held to what you knew in your heart. Constant, constant as the rain! What should I do if you should ever go away? My dearest Fanny."

"Fanny, I must confess something. I have loved you all my life... as a man loves a woman, as a hero loves a heroine, as I have never loved anyone in my entire life. I was so anxious to do what is right, that I forgot to do what is right. But if you choose me, after all my blundering and blindness, that will be a happiness which no description could reach."

"Oh, Elinor, I have longed for this moment from the instant of our first meeting, dear, dear Elinor. Would you... could you possibly... How could anyone help to love you?"

"I have come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours."

"Miss Dashwood, Elinor, I came here with no expectation, after everything that has happened you have every right to turn me away this instant. But I cannot leave here without conveying the intensity of my feelings for you... Every day since I first saw you, my love for you has grown. Elinor, I have no right to hope, but I must ask: can you forgive me? Can you love me? Will you marry me?"

"I told him that I felt myself bound to you, by honor, by affection, and by a love so strong, that nothing he could do could deter me from... Before I go on I should tell you there is a pretty good chance he'll disinherit me. I fear I may never be a rich man, Catherine. Will you marry me, Catherine?"

"Elinor, I would not blame you if you wanted me to leave, but please allow me... my engagement to Lucy was a folly of youth. I never felt for her or for anyone what I feel for you. And I don't care what my stepsister thinks, or my stepmother, or anyone. I will not marry for fortune, nor out of obligation. I want to marry for love. And I love you, Elinor. I know my own happiness now. And in truth, I have known it for some time. It lies with you, Elinor. I love you with all my heart. I have been in love with you since... since we first met at Norland. I tried to deny it out of some misguided sense of duty or honor. But... but it would not be denied. My love for you has never wavered. And I will continue to love you until the day I die. I came here today with one errand in mind, which I will now perform. Elinor Dashwood, will you do me the great honor of becoming my wife?"

Miss Morland... don't be afraid. I promise not to oppress you with too much remorse, or too much passion. Though since you left us, the white rose bush has died of grief. Catherine, are you still a disgrace to your sex? Does your face express all that your heart feels, or may I hope that it holds a secret? You know that I do not need my father's permission to marry you."

*I'm taking the P&P ones away from you all because it is no fun when everyone votes P&P.

[upsidedaisyy]

introducing myself i guess!

hey i’m daisy + i thought i would just make a post with my interests, so people will know what sort of things i will post about! :))

favourite movies:

- princess bride (1987)

- scream (1996)

- blair witch project (1999)

- bridget jones diary (2001)

- lord of the rings (2001-2003)

- pride and prejudice (2005)

- pans labyrinth (2006)

- marie antoinette (2006)

- twilight (2008)

- little women (2019)

- emma (2020)

favourite books:

- bunny, mona awad

- wuthering heights, emily bronte

- persuasion, jane austen

- the crucible, arthur miller

- hamnet, maggie o’farrell

- little women, louisa may alcott

- northanger abbey, jane austen

- their eyes were watching god, zora neale hurston

- haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

- the secret history, donna tartt

- the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman

- cruel prince series, holly black

favourite authors:

- jane austen

- daphne du maurier

- emily brontë

- william wordsworth

- rick riordan

- margaret atwood

- dolly alderton

- virginia woolf (essays)

favourite tv shows:

- game of thrones!

- haunting of hill house

- that 70s show

- chilling adventures of sabrina

- criminal minds

- friends

- gilmore girls

- interview with the vampire

- greys anatomy

other favourite activities:

- drawing + colouring books

- museum/bookshop visits

- second hand shopping (clothes + books)

- going to the cinema!

[novelmonger]

Today's the day for tag games, I guess!

Tagged by: @kraytwriter

Three Ships: Royai (FMA), Staron (MCU), RapunzelXEugene (Tangled)

Last Song: Currently listening to the Chrono Trigger soundtrack

Last Movie: Northanger Abbey (2007), which I watched to get the bad taste of the 1987 version out of my mouth X(

Currently reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Currently Watching: I just started Demon Slayer. My sister and I are watching Stranger Things, and keeping up with episodes of The Mandalorian season 3 as they come out. Oh, and I'm watching Criminal Minds with one friend and Dororo with another.

Currently consuming: Black tea

Currently Craving: Right now I'm pretty full, but before lunch I was craving sushi. The kind with cream cheese and cucumber.

Tagging: @dairogo, @sailforvalinor, @freenarnian, and @faeriefully if you haven't done this and want to.

[francesduncan]

Catherine's only 17 and Mr Tilney proposes (though does he in this adaptation?)

When Catherine is thrown out of his father's house, Mr Tilney isn't there but he's pissed when he returns and discovers what happened. Against his fathers wishes he goes to Catherine.

He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own ... no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey C30

Catherine is "assured of his affection" which "originated in nothing better than gratitude, ... a persuasion of her partiality for him." It's a simple love story really; she meets a guy and falls in love, that sparks his affection. His father attempts to get in the way and fails.

HENRY: Will you have me? Will you love me?

CATHERINE (for most of the novel): I'm only 17. I don't know anything

If you'd like to discuss Austen with me you can book via the read with me link in my bio

Audio Betty by Taylor Swift

Video Northanger Abbey 1987

[aethelflaedladyofmercia]

Since people might not know these things about Jane Austen…

Jane Austen was born in 1775. Her family were gentry but never especially well off, 200-500 pounds per year when the typical family of their class earned 1000-5000. This only grew worse after her father died in 1805, after which Jane, her sister, and her mother were almost entirely supported by her brothers. They didn’t even have a permanent home again until 1809.

She actually started writing very early. The Juvenilia is a collection of stories she wrote as a child and carefully preserved in a set of bound notebooks. The earliest stories date to 1987, when she was about 11 or 12.

She wrote her first novel in 1790 at age 14, Love and Freindship, and the next year The History of England, which I actually have a copy of. Both of these were satires/parodies, written for her family, though by this age she was already thinking about becoming a professional writer.

At 18 she started writing Lady Susan, which more-or-less marks her transition to mature novels (or epistolary novellas in this case), though it’s still considered one of the Juvenilia. This one she finished in 1795, at age 20.

In the winter of 1795, she had a brief but apparently quite intense romance with a man named Tom Lefroy. She wrote about him in several letters to her sister, but marriage would have been impossible for financial reasons. Their romance lasted less than 2 months, and she never saw him again.

About the same time, she started a novel (Elinor and Marianne) that would eventually become Sense and Sensibility. It was closely followed by First Impressions (later Pride and Prejudice) and Susan (Northanger Abbey).

In 1797, her father attempted to have First Impressions published, but it was rejected and returned.

In 1802, Jane was briefly (VERY briefly) engaged to an old friend named Harris Bigg-Wither, who had the wealth and land to ensure her family lived comfortably indefinitely. She broke off the engagement the next day.

In 1803, she sold Susan for 10 pounds to a publisher who… never did anything with it. In 1809 she wrote demanding he publish it or return it, but he did not. Her brother helped her buy it back in 1816, also for 10 pounds.

Her four novels were all published anonymously between 1811 (S & S) and 1815 (Emma). She is identified on them as “A Lady” or as “The Author of Sense and Sensibility.”

Two more novels (Northanger Abbey and Persuasion) were published after her death in 1816. They included a biographic note/eulogy by her brother, who identified her by name.

The Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery was so hushed up I can’t even find a reference to it online. 😔 Or perhaps she was just so good, they still haven’t realized the diamonds are missing??

Anyway, I’m sure we can ALL get some interesting fanfic from this…

Jane Austen began her novel writing in 1795, which implies that she was already a writer and trying to be published before masterminding the Clerkenwell Diamond Robbery of 1810, and somehow Crowley was still not aware of this fact.

[bethanydelleman]

Northanger Abbey Readthrough, Ch 1

Welcome to the Northanger Abbey Readthrough, October 2023! I will be posting one chapter per day, which will take us right to Halloween. This readthrough does contain spoilers, because I can't help myself.

We begin with the advertisement from the author, who is clearly annoyed that her first novel was purchased and then not published.

That any bookseller should think it worth-while to purchase what he did not think it worth-while to publish seems extraordinary.

While Jane Austen notes that books have changed, by which I assume she means the popularity of some of the novels referenced, I am pleased to inform you that Anthony Trollope mentioned Mrs. Radcliff and The Mysteries of Udolpho in his 1987 novel, Barchester Towers! Even the veil! So clearly the novels she was satirizing had not yet gone out of style.

On to the story! Catherine Morland is so very normal. The most normal girl ever. She also isn't an orphan, both her parents are living which the narrator points out is very hard for a heroine (lol). She doesn't really like lessons and she likes running around and rolling down hills.

She never could learn or understand anything before she was taught; and sometimes not even then, for she was often inattentive, and occasionally stupid.

Catherine's indifference to flowers will come up later, but this line is also funny in a forbidden fruit way:

Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.

This is a great description of an older sibling (I like to think this describes me as an older sister):

very kind to the little ones, with few interruptions of tyranny

And her family is so good and normal too! Her mom seems to have some good parenting practices:

She learnt a year, and could not bear it; and Mrs. Morland, who did not insist on her daughters being accomplished in spite of incapacity or distaste, allowed her to leave off.

The Morland family seems like a strong contrast to the Bennets, both of them employing no governess. We learn that the Morlands are actively invested in their children's education (unlike the Bennets):

Writing and accounts she was taught by her father; French by her mother: her proficiency in either was not remarkable, and she shirked her lessons in both whenever she could.

And even though the older girls are left to "shift for themselves", Mrs. Morland, who is both poorer and has double the children, can be more easily excused for some neglect. She sounds like a slave to the children's education, unlike Mrs. Bennet!

Catherine, a tomboy, begins to become interested in more feminine pursuits, but she does not transform into a great beauty or an accomplished young lady. Her achievements are similar to those of the ordinary person:

So far her improvement was sufficient—and in many other points she came on exceedingly well; for though she could not write sonnets, she brought herself to read them; and though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into raptures by a prelude on the pianoforte, of her own composition, she could listen to other people’s performance with very little fatigue.

Catherine is just the most relatable heroine ever! She's adequate. She's reasonably intelligent, passingly pretty, a true Every Woman. And really, the whole novel is full of so many small human moments that hit just as hard as the more dramatic ones from other novels (Lucy telling Elinor Edward is engaged to her, Louisa falling from the Cobb, Lydia's elopement) because they are things that might happen to anyone. Really wanting to see your crush and instead having to hang out with someone you dislike; not knowing if someone is angry at you or not; and finding out your friend isn't a real friend... Northanger Abbey somehow explores the most ordinary things without making them boring.

Also, while Catherine may seem unintelligent, the girl must have read a lot of Shakespeare, the quotes in this chapter come from Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and Othello. I reluctantly read 5 Shakespearean plays in high school, so Catherine is at about par with my education (I like Shakespeare now! I learned to appreciate him in university when I saw a few of the plays in person).

Catherine is also such a happy, bubbly, character. I can really imagine her being "all happiness" when her parents consent to her trip to Bath. We are told Emma Woodhouse has a happy disposition, but we don't see her dancing in her chair all the way home after a fun evening. Catherine really has joy and she comes back quickly from disappointment. She's a really great character to go on a journey with.

I feel like it must be noted, Catherine has to get away from her family to have an adventure because she has good parents. Good parents are exactly what you want to have, but as the narrator points out, they hardly make a good heroine! So the narrator is forced to remove our nascent heroine from her loving home into the dubious care of the Allens (and really they aren't that bad) for her story to begin. This contrasts again with the Bennets, who manage to supply a good deal of the story's conflict all on their own!

[lands-of-fantasy]

Northanger Abbey

How come N.A. has so few adaptions? I really like the 2007 TV film (in no small part thanks to its Tilney), but the other Austen novels have AT LEAST 3 classic versions…

I can’t even find the 1987 TV film! I’m not in the US (nor UK), which actually has it available for streaming. I’ve heard it is not good, but 1. we don’t have many options, and 2. I’ve seen the other books’ 70s and 80s british adaptions, so I would like to watch this one as well!

[overwhelmsion]

There is no way that the actual novel just ended like that.