There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. from Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen was one of the earliest British female novelists and her Northanger Abbey, widely considered as a transitional work, was her first novel although it was published as the last and posthumously in 1818.
Northanger Abbey follows the maturation of Catherine Morland, a naïve eighteen-year-old girl, ignorant of ...