Northanger Abbey British publication, "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book", by John Newbery, as described in Origins of baseball. The modern game is not described, but the term is used. "Northanger Abbey" takes place in several settings, some of which are fictionalized, but many are actual locations in England, including London and Bath. The Jane Austen Society of Australia created a map of the characters' whereabouts, designating the several real, and fake, locations traveled to or mentioned within the novel. Jasper Fforde, in his "First Among Sequels", refers to "Northanger Abbey" as being under maintenance, and "should be ready on time as long as
Northanger Abbey a portion of the novel's last sentence for the epigraph to Chapter 50 in his "Watership Down"; the reference to the General is felicitous, as the villain in "Watership Down" is also a General. The book, also, contains an early historical reference to baseball. It is found in the first chapter of the novel, describing the interest of the heroine : "...Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country...". It is not the earliest reference to the term, which is presently believed to be in a 1744