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Originally Posted by Quoth
I also suspect she was a fan of the "gothic" novels (all real) mentioned in Northanger Abbey. Those are all available free. I've been editing out OCR errors and bad formatting on them and will upload here eventually. They are quite entertaining.
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I look forward to that! As I said, I found "The Mysteries of Udolpho" longwinded and badly plotted, but it was interesting in a "see a genre in its infancy" way.
I've just downloaded Charlotte Lennox's "The Female Quixote" (published 1752), after I saw mentioned that this was one of Austen's influences for Northanger Abbey.