Mr. Rushworth Jane Austen was born in December 1775 and died in July 1817. She was a British novelist who wrote six novels: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Persuasion", and "Northanger Abbey". Her novels are about romance within the gentry. "Mansfield Park" was written between 1811 and 1813 and was published in 1814. The novel was published in a second edition in 1816. The novel is about a young woman, Fanny Price, and her life living with her relatives, the Bertrams. It catalogs the events that occur there and Fanny's insights into the characters and events. Little is
Northanger Abbey novel as completely a satire of the Gothic genre is problematic. Irvine points out that, except in book II, the problems faced by Catherine are not caused by her reading Gothic novels, nor is Catherine's rejection of romantic love following Henry's outburst the climax, but instead is followed by Catherine being summarily expelled from Northanger Abbey after General Tilney discovers that she is not rich as he had been led to believe. Irvine observed that for Catherine her expulsion is a traumatic event that is equal in its emotional impact to the horrors that she had imagined General Tilney committing.