An American rare-book dealer, Rebecca Romney, has managed it, by searching where Austen’s secrets lie hidden in plain sight: ...

Others, like Northanger Abbey, were met with more confusion than enthusiasm. As a coming-of-age romance and a romantic satire, a gothic parody and a comedy of manners, Northanger Abbey has ...

Romney vividly communicates her sometimes surprised enjoyment of the works that shaped Austen, finding them in some ways ...

Once was enough for Northanger Abbey -- an infant novel, swaddled in a dull satire of a dull genre (Gothick haunted houses). Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park have many excellencies ...