The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

In many respects, the novel ’ s “ current reader ” of the time was the woman who “ lay down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame ,” according to Jane Austen, author of Northanger Abbey.

This Female Gothic text by Parsons is listed as one of Catherine Morland's Gothic texts in Austen's Northanger Abbey.

: For films named Northanger Abbey, see Northanger Abbey ( 1986 film ) or Northanger Abbey ( 2007 TV drama ).

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.

Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath.

General Tilney ( Henry and Eleanor's father ) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.

The Tilneys invite Catherine to stay with them for a few weeks at their home, Northanger Abbey.

Henry teases her about this, as it turns out that Northanger Abbey is pleasant and decidedly not Gothic.

Eleanor Tilney: Henry's sister, she plays little part in Bath, but takes on more importance in Northanger Abbey.

Jane Austen, who referred to Fanny Burney as " the first of English novelists ," in Northanger Abbey refers to her inspiring novels:

Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction.

:" We can guess that Susan original title of Northanger Abbey, in its first outline, was written very much for family entertainment, addressed to a family audience, like all Jane Austen ’ s juvenile works, with their asides to the reader, and absurd dedications ; some of the juvenilia, we know, were specifically addressed to her brothers Charles and Frank ; all were designed to be circulated and read by a large network of relations.

Northanger Abbey exposes the difference between reality and fantasy and questions who can be trusted as a true companion and who might actually be a shallow, false friend.

* The A & E Network and the BBC released the television adaptation Northanger Abbey in 1986.

* An adaptation of Northanger Abbey with screenplay by Andrew Davies, was shown on ITV on 25 March 2007 as part of their " Jane Austen Season ".

* " Pup Fiction " – an episode of Wishbone featuring the plot and characters of Austen's Northanger Abbey.

When Henry returned to Northanger from Woodston, his father informed him of what had occurred and forbade him to think of Catherine again.

" The High Priestess ," a pseudonym used on http :// www. tilneysandtrapdoors. com / cult / smith. html, writes an essay with cited opinions that Mr. Henry Tilney, the hero of Jane Austen's < u > Northanger Abbey </ u > was possibly based on Sydney Smith.

( 1979 ); Lifeforce ( 1985 ); Letter to Brezhnev ( 1985 ); Northanger Abbey ( 1986 ), playing Henry Tilney ; The Hunt for Red October ( 1990 ); White Angel ( 1993 ), playing mild mannered dentist Leslie Steckler ; Amistad ( 1997 ); Pearl Harbor ( 2001 ); and The Greatest Game Ever Played ( 2005 ), playing Lord Northcliffe ).

Frederick Tilney: Henry's older brother ( the presumed heir to the Northanger estate ), an officer in the army who enjoys pursuing flirtations with pretty girls who are willing to offer him some encouragement ( though without any ultimate serious intent on his part ).

Greig's situation was similar to that of Felicity Jones who played Emma Carter in the series ; Jones, after a period studying at Wadham College, Oxford has moved into large TV parts, such as a starring role in Northanger Abbey.

* The Necromancer ; or, The Tale of the Black Forest by ' Ludwig Flammenberg ' 1927 ( part of an incomplete edition of the ' Northanger Horrid Novels ').

This last is included in a list of seven somewhat obscure Gothic works, known as the ' Northanger horrid novels ' as recommended by Isabella Thorpe to Catherine Morland:

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

In 1017 Henry II also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg (" Mount St. Michael "), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy.

On Midsummer's Day, Sunday, 1509, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were anointed and crowned together by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey.

There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his sons King Henry VI and Duke Frederick V, Duke of Swabia | Frederick V of Swabia, Welfenchronik, 1167 / 79, Weingarten Abbey

Henry Purcell's family lived just a few hundred yards west of Westminster Abbey from the year 1659 onward.

Henry was accepted as king by the leading barons and was crowned three days later on 5 August at Westminster Abbey.

In 1238, upon his death, Henry was buried at a Cistercian monastery of nuns, Trzebnica Abbey ( Kloster Trebnitz ), which he had established in 1202 at Hedwig's request.

Retaliation by Henry IV on the Strata Florida Abbey followed, but eventually led to Henry's retreat.

During the violent confrontations between Henry V and Paschal II's successor, Pope Gelasius II, the Pope was forced to flee from Rome, first to Gaeta, where he was crowned, then to the Abbey of Cluny, where he died on 29 January 1119.

The main task of this collegiate foundation, Quedlinburg Abbey ( where the Annals of Quedlinburg were compiled ), was to pray for the memory of King Henry and the rulers that came after him.

Stonehenge has changed ownership several times since King Henry VIII acquired Amesbury Abbey and its surrounding lands.

Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.

Stephen was probably with Henry during the military campaign of 1112, when he was knighted by the king, and was definitely present at court during the king's visit to the Abbey of Saint-Evroul in 1113.

The new King Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon on 11 June 1509 ; they were crowned at Westminster Abbey on 24 June the same year.

Shortly thereafter Morris trained his employee John Henry Dearle in the technique, setting up a tapestry loom at Queen Square and later a large tapestry works at Merton Abbey.

* 1154: On December 19, Henry II is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

* January 24 – Construction of Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey begins in the perpendicular style, the final stage of English gothic art.

* August 8 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland.

* Bisham Abbey is founded by Henry VIII in place of Bisham Priory.

In his lifetime, Henry Wilson only produced four sets of bronze doors, St Mary's Church, Nottingham, the chapel at Welbeck Abbey, the Salada Tea Company in Boston and these for the cathedral.

There is a legend that Henry I of England met an elderly monk at Waltham Abbey, who was in fact a very old Harold.

This time, it had the full support of the king and the English hierarchy, and a grateful pope issued the bull of canonization on 7 February 1161, the result of a conjunction of the interests of Westminster Abbey, King Henry II and Pope Alexander III He was called ' Confessor ' as the name for someone who was believed to have lived a saintly life but was not a martyr or churchman.

Henry also constructed a grand new tomb for Edward in a rebuilt Westminster Abbey in 1269.