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Catherine Morland, with all her enthusiasm and her mistakes, her modest tenderness and right feeling, is a most captivating picture of a very young girl. How Does Jane Austen Direct Her Readers' Response To Her Heroine Throughout Northanger Abbey? Written by James ....

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.... allows us to recognise Catherine's foibles and touching innocence. Many of the mistakes that Margaret Oliphant talks about in her description of Catherine in the title above come from Catherine's extreme innocence. Jane Austen's heroine arrives in Bath as a young debutante and, entirely inexperienced in the ways of the world, is immediately impressed by the more sophisticated Isabella. After their first meeting this is clear as she watches her leave; "(she) admired the graceful spirit of her walk, the fashionable air of her figure and dress, and felt grateful, as well she might, for the chance which had procured her such a friend." Jane Austen's ....