#cathy moreland

[elephantlovemedleys]

Felicity Jones as Catherine Moreland in Northanger Abbey (2007)

[ahahhahahahahahhhha]

Catherine Moreland as a true crime podcaster

I went on this strange website called AO3, sorted by kudos, and scrolled past BTS, Sherlock, and Critical Role fanfiction to find a version of Northanger Abbey as a transcript of Catherine Moreland's true crime podcast about the estate in the title. Being obsessed with true crime is basically the modern version of being an 1800s girl obsessed with Gothic Novels. They are both considered schlocky, undignified, entertainment with a majority female audience (although people respect novels now). Morbid girl stuff hasn't changed that much over the centuries. Catherine is your stereotypical, exploitative, sensationalist, true-crime podcast host. However, unlike in the original novel, you can tell the author likes her. A lot of the humor comes from knowing the conventions of a true-crime podcast. In the beginning, Catherine starts her podcast with a cheesy, cliche monologue about the alleged murders at Northanger Abbey. The author was probably channeling the spirit of a true crime wench while writing this part because it had the exact tone and word choice of every melodramatic podcaster. Afterward, we witness Catherine's attempts at coherent conversation and her journalistic facade falters; she is terrible at interviewing people. More: her podcast isn't famous, and she's in way over her head.

[bethanydelleman]

No, I meant like, in a modern sense a girl dad is someone who plays teaparties and makeup with their daughters. And boy dads are like going fishing and stuff. (I know I sound stupidly stereotypical, but I meant it in a cutesy way)

So... I don't do moderns and the concept of parenting is very different for Austen men than it would be today. This isn't a question I can't really answer especially since the novels themselves show very little parenting and the history books I've read give very little idea of what parenting was like other than very different from today.

Every Austen father would probably see it as their duty to train their sons to do gentleman things, like shooting, fishing, and horse riding. As for girl things, the only Austen hero who shows any knowledge or interest is Henry Tilney.

The male and female spheres were very codified and distinct in a way that meant that people regularly brought their sisters on their "honeymoon". Sorry JAFF writers and Bridgerton, but I really doubt that recently married Elizabeth and Darcy were having sex all day, all over Pemberley, they are probably only spending part of the day together. Kitty might well be there with Elizabeth. Men have their sphere and duties and women have theirs. Even in a family circle we still see dressing for dinner, separation of men and women after dinner etc. in Jane Austen's and other contemporary novels.

While they would be good fathers for their era, the way someone like Darcy would interact with his children is probably quite different than it would be today. Most novels have young children joining their family briefly in the evening for dessert. Older children remain in the drawing room afterwards. We know Sir Thomas had his children reading plays with the family. We know some fathers were involved in education (Sir Thomas and Mr. Moreland). But most Austen men are going to be employing nursemaids, governesses, and sending their sons to boarding schools like Eton and then university. Their daughters may stay at home or go to school for a few years.

Jane Austen really doesn't show us much father/child interaction at all. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell shows us a single father who brings his daughter along when he's riding around the country but he never is a "girl dad", he's a tomboy dad basically. But he's also more middle class and I can't think of a single gentry father in a novel shown doing a lot of interacting with their young child except um, Arthur Huntington and he's getting his four year old drunk 😬 (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall). In Agnes Grey, one gentry father sees his children so seldom Agnes doesn't even know what he looks like. In Wuthering Heights, Cathy Linton has an indulgent, loving father in Edgar but I don't think we ever see him play with her.

So yeah I don't know.

[nicethought]

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[signal-failure]

Death by Appointment: Dr Cathy Moreland Mystery #1

Death by Appointment: Dr Cathy Moreland Mystery #1

Death by Appointment by Mairi Chong tells the first story in the Dr Cathy Moreland mystery series. In the beginning of the story, Cathy heads to a remote Scottish village to recover after a mental breakdown. The seaside town of Kinnaven seems like a perfect place for healthy walks and ocean air. The opening premise is a bit like The Dark, where Dr. Kate North decides she needs a total change of…

[palis-delon]

While pouring out my thoughts about class in Sanditon and the larger Austen world I realized something. Charlotte is basically half Elizabeth Bennet and half Catherine Moreland. So we have the young (Cathy), slightly naive (Cathy), spunky (Elizabeth) heroine who’s not afraid to speak her mind (Elizabeth) but also learns when to humble herself (Elizabeth).

So... Can we swing back to Cathy for a minute and have the teenage girl who is hiding in her room reading smutty stories and imagining herself and her love interest acting them out?

[notaharpiebutasinger]

For @amarguerite who wanted to see my over 600 word argument about "tis" that was to an author on fanfiction.net. this has barely been edited and also I was a bit lazy

Because I'm petty, bored and have nothing better to do (and because amarguerite wanted to see the full essay) I came up with a full argument about tis. (Please don't think I think you're stupid or a bad writer for using tis, tis was just the straw that broke the camel's back and you're dealing with my rant). So without further ado

"Tis and it's use in Austen"

To begin with "tis" had fallen out of common use by the 1820's with it reaching its peak of usage in the 1710's meaning fine technically it can be used however it should be sparingly.

As to the point that it is used by Austen you are also correct; however when looked in a larger context you can find out some more truths. In order from least to greatest by use of "tis" we have Persuasion with 0, Emma and Mansfield park with 2, P&P with 3, Northanger Abbey with 4, and S&S coming out on top with 6. That ends up with a grand total of 17 uses of tis. In the grand scheme of Austen not that much (I also learned that Austen uses satisfy and it's conjugations a lot like a lot). Now you could stop there and just say to yourself okay I'll use it really sparingly, but to that I say oh no no I'm not done there's deeper down this rabbit hole to go.

Now let's look at when the stories approximately take place and who said the dreaded "tis". For the purpose of this point I am leaving out Emma and Mansfield park because I can make my argument without them and they do not really have that many tis's that can be explained by this point of view. This time I'm going to start from the greatest amount and work down. S&S took place anywhere between 1790 and the late 1800's, as a decade not a century, with a slight lean towards the middle of that time frame (none of Austen's work with the exception of Persuasion have a specific year) however more pertinent in this case is that 5 of the 6 "tis's" used are all used by the same character, Mrs. Jennings, who is an elderly lady. Thus the use of tis makes more sense because it still would have been somewhat fashionable when she was in her prime so she got in the habit of using it. Northanger Abby while published posthumously was actually written in the 1790's making it more likely to be about the late 1780's to early 90's thus closer to when tis was popular than any of her other works. So, the more common use is explainable. P&P is in the same boat time wise as S&S, if skewing slightly later than S&S. Tis is used once each by Mr. And Mrs. Bennet putting them in a similar situation to the characters from Northanger Abby as they could be a similar age if not them being slightly older depending on when you personally place the stories. And Finally Persuasion which takes place from 1814 to 1815 the closest to the time period most fanfic authors set their stories has 0 uses of the word tis. Suggesting that it had fallen out of common use by then.

Now as to HOW the word is used. Given that 5 are essentially a character quirk I'm going to subtract it from the total leaving us with twelve "tis's" to account for. Of that twelve, 3 are an announcement that someone is here like a "tis James coming up the driveway". And around 6 if not more, including the left over tis from S&S, all of them from P&P, and at least one from both Emma and Mansfield park(the remaining tis in MP is of the announcement variety),are the result of levity, of both the teasing and joyous kind. This leave only perhaps 3 tis's unaccounted for. The only reason I'm not double-checking if the other three fit into previous arguments is because I've wasted enough time on this bullshit.

There may also be a case for Cathy Morelands use of tis reflecting her wannabe heroine and from reading all those novels, but I'd have to look more into it.

In conclusion, YOU. SHOULDN'T. HAVE. USED. TIS. THERE. IF. AT. ALL.

Thank you

[thesilverstylist]

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[amarguerite]

Ok so I think I’ve got it— cub reporter Catherine Moreland (she’s written her father’s church news letter since she was 16 and wants to hit the big leagues of an actual newspaper!!) her bff society-columnist-wannabe Isabella Thorpe are trying to Make It in Bath, when Catherine discovers that the Bright Young Thing Tilneys she’s been running into are actually running. Clergyman Henry is going to perform a marriage ceremony for his sister and her fiancé of the laundry list.

Cathy discovers this. In exchange for an exclusive (and her photographing the wedding, Eleanor wouldn’t get pictures otherwise) Cathy keeps quiet and goes on a road trip with them in order to throw off General Tilney. In the course of it she and Henry get accidentally separated from Eleanor and her fiancé and On No There’s Only One Room/ Only One Bed. Henry jokingly erects the Wall of Jericho. They run into John Thorpe who’s now boastingly proud of his Model T and offers them a ride to the wedding venue. I’m not sure how but Henry manages to gain control of the Model T, Feelings Are Caught and I can do a fun reversal where in the English countryside a couple of social steps down, Catherine is the one at home and well able to navigate society and Henry isn’t so much.

General Tilney is furiously waiting at the venue and believes Catherine was part of a plot— Catherine, having learned some street smarts from Henry, draws out the interview so Henry can take Eleanor and the fiancé off and perform the ceremony. Once she sees they’re done, Cathy ends the buy-off negotiations by asking only for travel expenses. Henry is so delighted with Catherine and how dumbfounded his father is, he proposes on the spot.

(I don’t want to do a really long fic so maybe like “7 blasts against the wall of Jericho”??)

Also genuinely unsure what genre of fiction Catherine is obsessed with. Does she love Agatha Christie style murder mysteries and assume she is Poirot only to discover she’s actually Claudette Colbert in a screwball?

I love “it happened one night” so much ;_; it is bonkers but its 1930s screwball take on “there was only one room!” is so cute. I love that Clark Gable hung up a sheet over a wash line and called it the Wall of Jericho. I love their weird road trip energy. If I could think of a way to apply it to Jane Austen fic I would in a heartbeat

[claytoncleaver]

//i wanted to make another oc but i think i should just bite the bullet and finally make my northanger abbey muse, but i can't decide if i want to do just catherine with a horror verse or make her an entirely au muse

[thesilverstylist]

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[amarguerite]

ratheralark replied to your post “If you could pair Elizabeth with anyone from any novel Jane Austen had…”

I love all these answers. I definitely think Tilney wants a liiiiittle more open adoration from his wife than Lizzie would offer.

lmao, yeah, I don’t think Elizabeth would go about being the living embodiment of a heart-eyes emoji whenever he’s near, as Cathy Moreland tends to do. Of my limited options, I still think Henry would be the best on the basis of having similar senses of humor, but I don’t think Elizabeth would supply the open and unguarded… perhaps obvious affection he clearly wants out of relationship. I think Elizabeth could probably get along with him really, well, since he’s got the conversation, gentlemanly manners, and moral compass she values in a partner. 

(I think Fitzwilliam Darcy or Colobel Fitzwilliam are her best options for the record.)

[thesilverstylist]

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[nicethought]

//im gonna hop around from here, lorey, and work on setting up my cathy moreland blog because it’s long overdue i dont care if i still haven’t read the book i need to play this character