Austen both exploits and mocks these forms as she tells the story of young, naïve Catherine Morland, who eagerly enters the world of the country gentry and upper middle class society, only to be overwhelmed, confused, and sometimes disappointed by the people she meets and by the complexities of their social rules.
The work also comments on the novelistic conventions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including conventions related to the sentimental romance, as well as its subgenre, the Gothic romance. The book is also one of the first of its day to employ realism (depicting the common, often uneventful happenings of everyday life).
Though it was published posthumously in 1818, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey was written in 1803 and it was the first novel she completed.
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