The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible susp…
"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."