5/29/2023 0 Comments Tilney austen![]() ![]() This in turn adds to the humour of General Tilney as a voluntary spy supposedly trawling through pamphlets in search of sedition in the dead of night, for the Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property. ![]() Further, his family coat of arms in the church at Shelly Hall in Suffolk revealed intermarriage between the Tilneys and the Thorpes. For instance, Jane, as a staunch supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, would have been only too aware that Sir Charles Tilney, hanged drawn and quartered for his part in the Babington Plot, in 1586 had planned to kill Elizabeth 1 (whom Jane detested). ![]() It is so clever, sophisticated, ambitious and playful that many of the allusions are lost on us today. Virginia Woolf apparently saw it as “a girl of 15 laughing at the world”. It is in many respects a teenager playing a game with her readers. Various editions of Northanger Abbey: Surprise, surprise, Penguin wins again! ![]()
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