Frontispiece
Title page
Chapter 1, #1
Frontispiece
Their joy on this meeting
was very great. (I.iv)
Title Page (facing)
At eight years old she began. (I.i)

   
Chapter 1, #2
Chapter 2, #1
Chapter 2, #2
“Catherine grows quite a
good looking girl” (I.i)
She felt the awkwardness of having no party to join. (I.ii)
“Well! Miss Morland ... I hope you have had an agreeable ball.” (I.ii)
     
Chapter 5
Chapter 7, #1
Chapter 7, #2
Always arm-in-arm
when they walked. (I.v)
Mr. John Thorpe (I.vii)
The luxury of a ... frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho. (I.vii)
     
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11, #1
The boldness of his riding (I.ix)
Mr. Allen ... drinking his
glass of water. (I.x)
Anxious attention to the weather. (I.xi)
     
Chapter 11, #2
Chapter 13, #1
Chapter 13, #2
“Pray, pray stop, Mr. Thorpe” (I.xi)
They would not go without her. (I.xiii)
Making her one of the most graceful bows. (I.xiii)
     
Chapter 15
Chapter 18
Chapter 20
A famous good thing this marrying scheme! (I.xv)
Still sitting with Captain Tilney. (II.iii/ch.18)
“Can you stand such a
ceremony as this!” (II.v/ch.20)
     
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
“It was my mother's
favorite walk.” (II.vii/ch.22)
It was the air and attitude
of a Montoni! (II.viii/ch.23)
“Good God! How came you up that staircase?” (II.ix/ch.24)
     
Chapter 26
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
A charming game with a
litter of puppies. (II.xi/ch.26)
Introduced ... as
“Mr. Henry Tilney.” (II.xv/ch.30)
Mr. and Mrs. Morland's surprise ... was considerable. (II.xvi/ch.31)
Northanger Abbey

About the illustrations

Twenty-four watercolor illustrations
by Charles Edmund (“C.E.”) Brock for Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

Click on the thumbnails to view a larger image, and enjoy!

This particular edition of Northanger Abbey was published in 1907 as part of the Series of English Idylls, published
by J.M Dent & Co. (London) and E.P. Dutton & Co. (New York).

Wikipedia entry for C.E. Brock

“Austen Illustrated” by Deb Williams for the Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA), September 2004.

Six additional tinted line drawings by H.M. Brock, drawn in 1898. Thanks to Mandy N. for sharing her illustrations!

Miscellaneous Northanger Abbey illustrations and cover art from various editions (including the Berkeley Sutcliffe sketches previously linked on this C.E. Brock page).

Miscellaneous NA

NA Adaptations Page: A list of the various Northanger Abbey radio, stage play, and TV/film adaptations, with links to reviews, pictures, etc. by a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant fangirl.

Graphic Classics has issued Gothic Classics, a multi-author collection featuring comics adaptations of Northanger Abbey and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Now available directly from Graphic Classics and other retailers. Read my 13 June 2007 review on AustenBlog.

Illustrated costume suggestions from Miss Rosina Filippi's Duologues and Scenes from the Novels of Jane Austen (1895). One of the seven selections is from Northanger Abbey.

A letter from Mr. Richardson in The Rambler, No. 97, vol. ii (1751), as referred to in Chapter 3.

“A very clever Essay” E-text version of The Mirror, No. 12, 1779. This is the essay Mrs. Morland is sure will cure Catherine's despondency in Chapter 30.

Valancourt Books is in the process of publishing the amazingly horrid novels listed in Isabella's pocket book. Now you, too, can keep up with Miss Andrews ... and discover other formerly out-of-print terrifying treats from the 18th-19th century Gothic tradition:

Linked titles are available for purchase.

Please pardon the 20th-century intrusion, but the 1997 minimalist synthpop song Isabella by Cosmicity is too apt not to share. I found it excessively diverting, and could imagine poor, lovelorn James composing such a song just before Miss Thorpe kicks him to the curb.
Listen to a sample or purchase an MP3 of the song or album from A Different Drum. The lyrics are on Cosmicity's web site (bottom of lyric page).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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