Jane Austen (1775-1817) and the Northanger Novelists:

Carl Grosse (1768-1847), Lawrence Flammenberg [Karl Friedrich Kahlert],
Francis Lathom (1777-1832), Eliza Parsons (1748-1811),
Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845), Eleanor Sleath

Internet Resources

Illustrations from the Chapbooks and Shilling Shockers in the Sadleir-Black Gothic Collection, the University of Virginia

The Jane Austen Society of North America



ANDERSON, Walter E. “From Northanger Abbey to Woodston: Catherine’s Education to Common Life.” Philological Quarterly 63 (1985): 493-509. [GGII: 0615].

AUERBACH, Nina. “Jane Austen and Romantic Imprisonment." Jane Austen in a Social Context. Ed. David Monaghan. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1981. 9-27. [GGI: 09-74].

BEARD, Margaret. “‘Visions of Romance, Anxieties of Common Life’: Jane Austen’s Gothic Novel: a Reading of Northanger Abbey." English Academy Review 15 (1998): 130-8.

BRANDON, Eugenie Josephine. “Jane Austen’s Attitude toward the Gothic Novel.” Master’s Thesis, University of Arizona, 1935. [GGIII: 2316]

BROOKS, Marilyn and Nicola WATSON. “Northanger Abbey: Contexts.” The Nineteenth Century Novel: Contexts. Eds. Delia da Sousa Correa, Dennis Walter and Stephen Regan. London: Routledge for Open University, 2000. 62-86. [GGIII: 2317]

BURGESS, Miranda. “Domesticating Gothic: Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, and National Romance.” Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. Eds. Thomas Pfau and Robert F. Gleckner. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. 392-412. [GGIII: 2318]

BUTLER, Marilyn. “The Woman at the Window: Ann Radcliffe in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen.” Women and Literature 1 (1980): 128-148. [GGI: 0975].

CHARD, Leslie F. II. “Jane Austen and the Obituaries: The Names of Northanger Abbey.” Studies in the Novel 7 (1975): 133-136. [GGII: 0616].

CLARKE, Stephen. “Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill, and Aspects of the Gothic Revival.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 93-105. [GGIII: 2321]

DAVIE, John. Introduction. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Oxford UP, 1971. [GGI: 0977].

DEFENSOR, Ella Benaoro. “A Study in Jane Austen’s reaction to the Gothic novel and the Novel of Sensibility.” Master’s Thesis, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1955. [GGIII: 2323]

DELOGU, Christopher Jon. “Northanger Abbey et le roman gothique entre parodie et apologie.” Le Roman noir anglais dit gothique. Ed. Max Duperray. Paris: Ellipses, 2000. 162-68. [Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Romance between Parody and Apology]. [GGIII: 2324]

DERRY, Stephen. “Harriet Smith’s Reading.”Persuasions: Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America (December 14, 1992). [GGII: 0617].

DERRY, Stephen. “The Gothic, and Coat Symbolism in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 18 (1996): 49-53. [GGIII: 2326]

DUSSINGER, John. “Parents Against Children: General Tilney as Gothic Monster.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 165-74. [GGIII: 2327]

EHRENPREIS, Anne H. “Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith.” Nineteenth Century Fiction 25 (1970): 343-348. [GGI: 0978].

EHRENPREIS, Anne H. Introduction. Northanger Abbey. Baltimore: Penguin, 1972. 7-24. [GGIII: 2329]

EMDEN, Cecil S. “The Composition of Northanger Abbey.” Review of English Studies 19 (1968): 279-287. [GGI: 0979].

FORD, Susan Allen. “How to Read and Why: Emma's Gothic Mirrors.” Persuasions 25 (2003): 110-20.

GILES, Paul. “The Gothic Dialogue in Pride and Prejudice.” Text and Context 2.1 (1988): 68-75. [GGII: 0618].

GLOCK, Waldo S. “Catherine Morland’s Gothic Delusions: A Defense of Northanger Abbey.” Rocky Mountain Review of language and literature 32 (1978): 33-46. [GGI: 0980].

GROGAN, Claire. Introduction. Northanger Abbey. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1996. 5-42. [GGIII: 2333]

HALL, Lynda A. “Addressing Readerly Unease: Discovering the Gothic in Mansfield Park.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 28 (2006): 208-16.

HERMANSSON, Casie. “Neither Northanger Abbey: The Reader Presupposes.” Papers on Language and Literature 36:4 (2000): 337-56. [GGIII: 2334]

HOEVELER, Diane Long. “Vindicating Northanger Abbey: Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and Gothic Feminism.” Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism. Ed. Devoney Looser. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 117-35. [GGIII: 2335]

HOPKINS, Robert. “General Tilney and the Affairs of State: The Political Gothic of Northanger Abbey.” Jane Austen, Critical Assessments: Volume III, Juvenilia; Lady Susan; the Watsons; Letters; Northanger Abbey; Sense and sensibility; Pride and Prejudice. Mountfield, East Sussex: Helm Information, 1998. 213-24. [GGI: 0981]

HUDSON, J. “Gothic, Romance and Satire in Northanger Abbey. “ English Review 12 (2001): 20-23. [GGIII: 2337]

JELÍNKOVÁ, Ema. “Jane Austen and the Blissful Amnesia in Northanger Abbey.” Brno Studies in English 32 (2006): 123-8.

JERINIC, Maria. “In Defense of the Gothic: Rereading Northanger Abbey.” Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism. Ed. Devoney Looser. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995. 137-49. [GGIII: 2338]

KLINGEL RAY, Joan. “Austen's Northanger Abbey.” Explicator 61.2 (2003): 79-81.

LAMONT, Claire. “Jane Austen’s Gothic Architecture.” Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition. Eds. Valeria Tinkler Viviani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 107-15.

LANSDOWN, Richard. “‘Rare in Burlesque’: Northanger Abbey.” Philological Quarterly 83:1 (2004): 61-81.

LAU, Beth. “Madeline at Northanger Abbey: Keats’s Anti-Romances and Gothic Satire.”Journal of English and Germanic Philology 84 (1985): 30-50. [GGII: 0619].

LEVINE, George R. “Translating the Monstrous: Northanger Abbey.” Nineteenth Century Fiction 30 (1975): 335-350. [GGI: 0982].

LEVINE, George R. “Northanger Abbey: From Parody to Novel and Translated Monster.” [GGI: 0983].

LOVERIDGE, Mark. “Northanger Abbey: Or, Nature and Probability.” Nineteenth Century Literature 56 91991): 1-29. [GGII: 0620].

MC KILLOP, Alan D. “Jane Austen’s Gothic Titles.” Notes and Queries 9 (1921): 361-362. [GGI: 0984].

MEIHUIZEN, Dorothea, ed. Northanger Abbey. With an appendix on the Gothic novel containing extracts from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter, 1978; London: Edward Arnold, 1980. [GGIII: 2345]

MENHENNET, Alan. “From Bierbach to Bath: Wieland, Jane Austen, and Ann Radcliffe.” Quinquereme 8 (1985): 62-73. [GGII: 0621].

MIDDLETON, Linda C. "Anxious Spectators and Voluntary Spies: The Novel Hauntings of Northanger Abbey." Genre 27 (1994): 105-19. [GGIV: 0000]

MILLER, Kathleen Ann. "Haunted Heroines: The Gothic Imagination and the Female Bildungsromane of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and L.M. Montgomery. The Lion and the Unicorn. 34.2 (2010): 125-147.

MORRISON, Paul. “Enclosed in Openness: Northanger Abbey and the Domestic Carceral.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 33 (1991): 1-23. [GGII: 0622].

MUDRICK, Marvin. “The Literary Pretext Continued; Irony Versus Gothicism; Northanger Abbey.” Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1952. 37-59; Rpt. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Ed. B.C. Southam. London and Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1976. [GGII: 0623].

NEILL, Edward. “The Secret of Northanger Abbey.” Essays in Criticism 47 (1997): 13-32. [GGIII: 2349]

NICHOLSON, Darrell Hatfield. “A Study of the Influence of the Gothic Romance on Northanger Abbey.” Master’s Thesis, University of Louisville, 1966. [GGIII: 2350]

NEILL, Natalie. "'The Trash with which the Press now Groans': Northanger Abbey and the Gothic Bestsellers of the 1790s." Eighteenth-Century Novel 4 (2004): 163-92. [GGIV: 0000]

NELSON, James Lindemann. "How Catherine Does Go On: Northanger Abbey and Moral Thought." Philosophy and Literature 34.1 (2010): 188-200.

NOEL-BENTLEY, E.R. “Jane Austen and Regina Maria Roche.” Notes and Queries 220 (1975): 390-391. [GGI: 0985].

PAYNE, Susan. The Strange within the Real: The Function of Fantasy in Austen, Brontë, and Eliot. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1992. [GGIII: 2352]

PEREZ-GALLEGO, Candido. “Dos dimensiones estilisticas de Jane Austen.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 22-23 (1991): 9-21. [Two stylistic dimensions of Jane Austen]. [GGIII: 2353]

PITTOCK, Joan. “The Novelist in Search of a Fiction: Northanger Abbey.” Études Anglaises 40 91987): 142-152. [GGII: 0624].

RAY, Joan Klingel. “Austen’s Northanger Abbey.” Explicator 61:2 (2003): 79. [GGIII: 2355]

ROBERTS, Marilyn. “Catherine Morland: Gothic Heroine After All?" TOPIC: A Journal of the Liberal Arts 48 (1997): 22-30. [GGIII: 2356]

ROBERTS, Marilyn. ”Adapting Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: Catherine Morland as Gothic Heroine.” Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film. Ed. Barbara Tepa Lupack. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1999. 129-39.

SADLEIR, Michael. "The Northanger Novels: A Footnote to Jane Austen." English Association Pamphlet 68 (November, 1927). [GGI: 0986].

SADLEIR, Michael. “‘All Horrid?’: Jane Austen and the Gothic Romance.” Things Past London: Constable, 1944. 167-200. [GGI: 0987].

SEARS, Albert C. “Male Novel Reading of the 1790s, Gothic Literature and Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions 21 (1999): 106-22. [GGIII: 2359]

STÉPHANE, Nelly. “Une Parodie de Roman Noir: Northanger Abbey.” Europe: Revue Littéraraire Mensuelle 659 (1984): 19-28. [GGII: 0625].

SUMMERS, Montague. “‘Northanger Abbey’: ‘Horrid Romances.’” Notes and Queries 2, 12th Series (July 1, 1916): 9. [GGII: 0626].

SUMMERS, Montague. “‘Northanger Abbey’: ‘Horrid Romances.’” Notes and Queries 2, 12th Series (July 29, 1916): 97-98. [GGII: 0627].

SUMMERS, Montague. “‘Northanger Abbey.’” Times Literary Supplement (December 27, 1917): 649. [GGII: 0628].

TANDRUP, Birthe. “Free Indirect Style and the Critique of the Gothic in Northanger Abbey.” The Romantic Heritage: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Karsten Engelberg. Copenhagen, Denmark: University of Copenhagen, 1983. 81-92. [GGII: 0629].

THOMSON, Douglass H. and Frederick S. FRANK. “Jane Austen and the Northanger Novelists.” Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 33-47. [GGIII: 2365]

TY, Eleanor. “Catherine’s Real and Imagined Fears: What Happens to Female Bodies in Gothic Castles.” Persuasions 20 (1998): 248-60. [GGIII: 2366]

WALDRON, Mary. “NORTHANGER NOVELS.” The Handbook to Gothic Literature. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 279. [GGIII: 2367]

WALLACE, Tara Ghoshal. “Northanger Abbey and the Limits of Parody.” Studies in the Novel 20 (1988):262-273. [GGII: 0630].

WOLPERS, Theodore. “Schrecken und vernunft: Die Romanlesende Heldin in Jane Austens Northanger Abbey.” Gelebte literatur: Studien zu erscheinungsformen und geschichte eines literarischen motivs. Ed. Theodor Wolpers. Göttingen, W. Germany: Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, 1986. 168-184. [GGII: 0631].

ZIMMERMAN, Everett. “The Function of Parody in Northanger Abbey.” [GGI: 0989].

Carl Grosse (1768-1847)

LE TELLIER, Robert Ignatius. Kindred Spirits: Interrelations and Affinities Between the Romantic Novels of England and Germany (1790-1820) with Special Reference to the Work of Carl Grosse (1768-1847) Forgotten Gothic Novelist and Theorist of the Sublime. Salzburg, Austria: Institut für Anglistik and Amerikanistik, 1982. [GGII: 0632].

SUMMERS, Montague. Introduction. Horrid Mysteries. London: Holden, 1927. v-xx. [GGI: 0992].

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. Horrid Mysteries. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 0993].

Lawrence Flammenberg (dates unknon)

CASS, Jeffrey D. Introduction. The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest. Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006. [GGIV: 0000]

SUMMERS, Montague. Introduction. The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 1014].

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 1015].

Francis Lathom (1777-1832)

CRUISE, James. Introduction. The Impenetrable Secret; Find It Out! Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006. [GGIV: 0000]

JENKINS, James D. Introduction. The Castle of Ollada by Francis Lathom. Seattle: Valancourt Books, 2005. ix-xiii. [GGIV: 0000]

JENKINS, James D. Introduction. Italian Mysteries by Francis Lathom. Chicago: Valancourt Press, 2005 [GGIV: 0000]

JENKINS, James D. Introduction. The Mysterious Freebooter; or, The Days of Queen Bess. Chicago: Valancourt Books, 2006. [GGIV: 0000]

MC CONNOCHIE, Arthur. “Francis Lathom, Forgotten Goth.” Doctoral Disseration, University of Virginia, 1949. [GGI: 0994].

PUNTER, David & Alan BISSETT. “Francis Lathom in the Eighteenth Century.” Gothic Studies 5:1 (2003): 55-70. [GGIV: 0000]

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. The Midnight Bell. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 0996].

Eliza Parsons (1748-1811)

HOEVELER, Diane Long. Introduction. The Castle of Wolfenbach. Chicago: Valancourt Press, 2006. [GGIV: 0000]

ROBERTS, Bette B. “Marital Fears and Polygamous Fantasies in Eliza Parsons’ Mysterious Warning.” Journal of Popular Culture 12 (1978): 42-51. [GGI: 0997].

SÉJOURNÉ, Philippe. “Feminine Sentimental Fiction Renovated: Mrs. Eliza Parsons’s The Valley of St. Gothard.” Caliban 33 (1996): 43-50. [GGIII: 2379]

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. The Castle of Wolfenbach. London: Folio pRESS, 1968. [GGI: 0999].

SUMMERS, Montague. Introduction. The Mysterious Warning: A German Tale. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 1000].

Regina Maria Roche (1764-1845)

ATKINSON, F.G. Introduction. Nocturnal Visit. Forword Robert D. Mayo. New York: Arno Press, 1977. [GGI: 1001].

MANDAL, Anthony. “Revising the Radcliffean Model: Regina Maria Roche’s Clermont and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey.” Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text 3 (3 September 1999) <http://www.cf.ac.uk/ encap/ corvey/articles/cc03_n03.html>. [GGIII 2383]

SCHROEDER, Natalie E. “Regina Maria Roche: Popular Novelist, 1789-1834.” Dissertation Abstracts International 39 (1979): 4962A-4963A (Northwestern University). [GGI: 1005].

SCHROEDER, Natalie E. “Regina Maria Roche, Popular Novelist, 1789-1834: The Rochean Canon.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 73 (1979): 462-468. [GGI: 1006].

SCHROEDER, Natalie. Introduction. Clermont by Regina Maria Roche. Chicago: Valancourt Press, 2005. [GGIV: 0000]

SCHROEDER, Natalie E. “The Anti-Feminist Reception of Regina Maria Roche.” Essays in Literature 9 (1982): 56-65. [GGII: 0633].

SCHROEDER, Natalie E. “Regina Maria Roche and the Early Nineteenth Century Irish Novel.” Eire-Ireland: A journal of Irish Studies 19.2 (1984): 116-130. [GGII: 0634].

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. Clermont. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 1008].

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. The Children of the Abbey. London: Folio Press, 1968. [GGI: 1008A].

Eleanor Sleath (dates unknown)

VARMA, Devendra P. Introduction. The Orphan of the Rhine. London: Folio Press, 1968 [GGI: 1010].

VARMA, Devendra P . Introduction. The Nocturnal Minstel; or, The Spirit of the Wood. New York: Arno Press, 1972. [GGI: 1011].

WILT, Judith. Ghosts of the gothic: Austen, Eliot, and Lawrence. Princeton, NJ; Guildford: Princeton UP., 1980.