Northanger Abbey

Catherine Morland grows up plain and unheroic in Fullerton, and Mrs. Allen invites her to Bath while Mr. Allen treats his gout.

Catherine Morland travels to Bath with the Allens and knows nobody at the Upper Rooms ball, so she gets no partner, but two young men call her pretty.

Catherine Morland dances with Mr. Tilney at the Lower Rooms in Bath, where he teases her about her journal and charms Mrs. Allen with talk of muslin.

Mr. Tilney fails to appear at the Bath pump room, and Mrs. Allen meets her old schoolfellow Mrs. Thorpe, whose daughter Isabella befriends Catherine.

Catherine looks for Mr. Tilney all over Bath and concludes he has left, while she and Isabella Thorpe become inseparable and read novels together.

Isabella Thorpe lists horrid novels for Catherine Morland in the Bath pump room, teases her about Mr. Tilney, then leads her after two young men.

Catherine and Isabella meet James Morland and John Thorpe in Bath, and John boasts of his gig, scorns novels, and engages Catherine for a dance.

At the Upper Rooms, Catherine refuses Mr. Tilney a dance because she is engaged to John Thorpe, and Mrs. Hughes introduces her to Miss Tilney.

Catherine Morland drives to Claverton Down with John Thorpe, decides he is disagreeable, and learns from Mrs. Allen that she missed the Tilneys.

Catherine Morland befriends Miss Tilney in the pump room, dodges John Thorpe at the ball to dance with Mr. Tilney, and arranges a country walk.

John Thorpe lies that he saw the Tilneys driving out, so Catherine misses their walk for Blaize Castle, and Morland turns the party back at Keynsham.

Catherine is turned away from Miss Tilney's door in Milsom Street, and at the theatre Henry Tilney explains that General Tilney ordered the refusal.

Catherine refuses the Clifton scheme, and after John Thorpe falsely cancels her walk with Miss Tilney, she runs to Milsom Street and sets it right.

Catherine walks round Beechen Cliff with Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who teach her the picturesque, and Anne Thorpe says the Clifton party went ahead.

Isabella Thorpe tells Catherine she is engaged to James Morland, the Morlands consent by letter, and John Thorpe hints at marrying Catherine.

Catherine's visit to Milsom Street disappoints her, Captain Tilney coaxes Isabella into dancing, and James Morland is promised a living.

General Tilney invites Catherine Morland to visit Eleanor at Northanger Abbey, and her parents send their consent by return of post.

Isabella tells Catherine that John Thorpe loves her, Catherine refuses him, and Captain Tilney arrives to flirt with Isabella in Bath.

Catherine Morland sees Isabella encourage Captain Tilney and asks Henry Tilney to send him from Bath, but Henry refuses and calms her fears for James.

Catherine Morland leaves the Allens for Northanger Abbey, where Henry Tilney teases her with a Gothic tale on the drive and the abbey proves modern.

Catherine finds only a counterpane in the old chest at Northanger Abbey, then discovers a manuscript in a cabinet as her candle goes out.

Catherine finds the manuscript is only laundry bills, and after Eleanor recalls her late mother, she concludes General Tilney was cruel to his wife.

General Tilney shows Catherine over Northanger Abbey but bars his late wife's room, and Catherine concludes he has imprisoned Mrs. Tilney alive.

Catherine searches Mrs. Tilney's room at Northanger alone and finds it ordinary, and Henry Tilney tells her his mother died of a bilious fever.

Catherine abandons her Gothic fancies at Northanger, and a letter from James reveals that Isabella has broken their engagement for Captain Tilney.

General Tilney takes Catherine and Eleanor to Henry's parsonage at Woodston, and hints that the unfurnished drawing room awaits a lady's taste.

Isabella Thorpe writes asking Catherine to win James back, and Catherine refuses after Henry confirms Frederick never cared for Isabella.

General Tilney returns to Northanger and orders Catherine out, and Eleanor breaks the news and lends her money for the journey home to Fullerton.

Catherine travels eleven hours alone to Fullerton, where the Morlands condemn General Tilney, and she writes to Eleanor enclosing the borrowed money.

Henry Tilney comes to Fullerton and proposes to Catherine, explaining that John Thorpe's lies about her fortune turned General Tilney against her.

Eleanor Tilney marries a viscount, which softens General Tilney into consenting, and Henry and Catherine marry within a year of meeting.